Hi all
I'm a bit confused about a tutorial found at the ieee site.
I.e. 3com got the OUI assigned by ieee of 00-50-04 (hex) If I dump networktraffic from a system that is having such a 3com nic installed I find in the dump what I would expect namely 00-50-40-xx-xx-xx as the machines MAC address. Now, the confusing part actually comes from the following document:
According to this document the OUI AC-DE-48 would have a binary representation of
CA-ED-84-xx-xx-xx
where 'C' would contain the last significant bit but would be transmitted first??
Is it true that the bits of a byte on ethernet are transfered in "non network" order or do I miss something? If this is true, all is well in that a dump of above example OUI in fact would result in AC-DE-48-xx-xx-xx and not in CA-ED-84 but I think they better should take that "tutorial" off line or else point this out more clearly - no? Any comments welcome.
TIA
Markus