["Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <jsalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I wish that page had more explanation than just identifying who 
registered it.
It' s just that I suddenly see a lot of these.


Thanks,

John


Guy Harris wrote:

> > A bit offtopic, but ... I can't figure out what these ethernet packets 
> > are with ether type 0x886d,
>
>
> The page at
>
> 	http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/type-pub.html
>
> says it's assigned to "Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR" (I'm not sure
> what group that is at Intel; I think they're still headquartered in
> Santa Clara, CA, so I presume that means that a group in Hillsboro
> were the ones who registered it).
>
> I don't know if this is some old thing dating back to the days when
> they, IBM, and Microsoft developed SMB (I think Intel had a product
> using SMB as a networked file system for UNIX, OpenNET or something such
> as that, ages ago), or something Shiny And New from the Intel
> Architecture Labs or from the guys doing networking cards at Intel.
>
> It doesn't seem to match the description of a "Magic Packet" in the
> Intel 82558 manual (and it'd be kind of silly for some machine to be
> broadcasting "power yourself up" packets madly anyway).
>
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