RE: [RPRWG] Destination Address of RPR control messages
David,
You're right. It turns out that my copy of the OUI list was
old and broken. Sorry about that.
Best regards,
- Tom A.
-----Original Message-----
From: David James [mailto:djz@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:49 PM
To: Tom Alexander; 'Anoop Ghanwani'; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Destination Address of RPR control messages
Tom,
Beg to differ. Zero is "officially" owned by Xerox,
although commonly used by other standards to represent
a NULL value.
Check it out at:
http://www.standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
However, there is an pending action request to the
IEEE from its MSC committee to make zero a NULL value.
DVJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Alexander
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: 'Anoop Ghanwani'; 'stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Destination Address of RPR control messages
>
>
>
> I believe there was some discussion on this topic in relation
> to a comment at the last meeting. The point was brought up that
> all-zeros is an illegal value for a MAC address. Essentially,
> an all-zeros address is a globally-administered (universal)
> address, for which an OUI must have been supplied by the IEEE
> Registration Authority. To the best of my knowledge, no OUI
> of all-zeros has been issued. Unless P802.17 wishes to request
> the Registration Authority to issue them the all-zeros OUI,
> use of an all-zeros MAC address is illegal.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Tom Alexander
> Chief Editor, P802.17
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anoop Ghanwani [mailto:anoop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:30 AM
> To: 'stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [RPRWG] Destination Address of RPR control messages
>
>
>
>
> According to Clause 8 in D0.2, the destination address
> is set to "all zeros" for hop-by-hop control packets,
> and "all ones" for broadcast control packets.
>
> Other IEEE 802 MACs use reserved multicast addresses to
> identify MAC control frames. For example, IEEE 802.3
> flow control frames are sent with a destination address
> of 01-80-C2-00-00-01. These frames are only sent on
> full-duplex Ethernet links and must not be forwarded
> by the MAC.
>
> Is there any reason for deviating from the standard
> practice?
>
> -Anoop
> --
> Anoop Ghanwani - Lantern Communications - 408-521-6707
>