Lpc2000

---- Original Message ----
From: "Ryan Niemi" <ryan@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:38 AM
Subject: [lpc2000] Re: MAC address for NM7010A

> Actually MAC addresses aren't purchased individually, IEEE will assign
> you an OUI (the first 3 octets of the MAC address) for a fee that's
> around $1250 the last time I checked.  Then you're responsible for
> assigning MAC addresses within your OUI at your own discretion.  This
> gives you around 16.7 million MAC addresses.  Sadly, IEEE's opinion is
> that MAC addresses are not transferrable.  One company that purchased
> an OUI a while back attempted to sell pieces of it to anyone who
> couldn't justify buying a whole OUI block, but IEEE promptly objected.

You can also buy a block of 4096 addresses, called an IAB, for USD 550.
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/index.html

Karl Olsen