[Noisebridge-discuss] IEEE OUI block

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM,  <alex at alexperez.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
>>> Does anyone maintain an IEEE OUI?  I want to buy something like 64
>>> valid addresses for a project, and an IAB is way more than I need.
>
>
> Why not just use/steal one from a range allocated to Xerox? It's not like
> they've made Ethernet devices in the last 20+ years

Aint that the truth! Poor PARC... always getting the short end of the stick. :p
I bet there are a lot of unused OUIs out there (I wonder if there's a
yearly maintenance cost to the IEEE. I doubt they'd ever rescind and
re-issue an OUI though).

Is this for something that you'll pass onto a third party?
You could also just set the IG bit (second-least significant bit in
byte number 1) and create your own internal assignment/uniqueness
protocols.

Cheers,
jof