[Fwd: Definition of Canonical]

Mark Delsman mdelsman at corp.adaptec.com
Thu May 28 15:03:24 PDT 1998


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Please ignore my earlier statement. I've got it now!

Mark

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* From the T10 (formerly SCSI) Reflector (t10 at symbios.com), posted by:
* "Mark Delsman" <mdelsman at corp.adaptec.com>
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George - either your example is incorrect or I'm not following the differences.

00h 06h 29h = 00000000 00000100 00101001
Reversing the bytes yields: 00000000 00100000 10010100 = 00h 20h 96h

Is this what you intended?

Regards,
Mark

George Penokie wrote:

> * From the T10 (formerly SCSI) Reflector (t10 at symbios.com), posted by:
> * George Penokie <gop at us.ibm.com>
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> OK so someone had to ask!! Here is the way IEEE uses the term when referring to
> OUIs (Organizationally Unique Identifier). IEEE defines two forms of hex data;
> the MSB hex form and the Canonical form. The difference between the two is in
> the order the bits in a byte are sent over a serial link (e.g., token ring,
> ethernet). The MSB hex form transmits the most significant bit of a byte first
> and least significant bit of a byte last. The Canonical form transmits the
> least significant bit of a byte first and the most significant bit of a byte
> last. That means 00h 06h 29h is equivalent to 00h 60h 94h.
>
> So what does this have to do this us we don't care how the data is transferred
> as long as it is the same when it gets to the other side. The problem is that
> is we do not define which form is used then a company has no idea which form to
> use when putting the three bytes into the VDP page. It turns out when you look
> at the IEEE OUI database the company IDs are given in the Canonical form. This
> by the way is not obvious when looking at that data base. Because of this
> someone could think they need to use the MSB form and place that in the VDP
> page which means they would be using ID not assigned to them.
>
> Bye for now,
> George Penokie
>
> Dept EGB  114-2 N212
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