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Re: US patent 5473599
From: Job Snijders <job () instituut net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 13:11:27 +0200
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> [2014-05-08 12:14]:If OBSD can't afford MAC addresses but does not object to them in principle, I can give forever IRU for 256 MAC addresses to OBSD for 0USD one-time fee.when/if we change the mac addrs, the new range should be utterly correct and not just "a little bit better". not sure this would qualify.
I fail to see the issue with using these addresses, they are globally unique and correctly administrated at IEEE, Saku Ytti can do whatever he wants (like giving indefeasible rights of use to the OpenBSD Foundation). It won't come any cheaper than this (I am Dutch, I recognise a good deal when I see one!). If the team accepts I'll submit a patch to wireshark so decoded packets containing MACs from that block are properly identified as "OpenBSD". Kind regards, Job
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- Re: US patent 5473599, (continued)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Bill Fenner (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Henning Brauer (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Randy Bush (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 sthaug (May 06)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Eygene Ryabinkin (May 07)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Rob Seastrom (May 07)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Gary Buhrmaster (May 07)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Henning Brauer (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Saku Ytti (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Henning Brauer (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Job Snijders (May 08)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Tony Li (May 07)
- Re: US patent 5473599 Henning Brauer (May 06)