John Remington wrote:

>Guys:  The mac address is necessary, the IP is mapped to the mac
>address of the device in the routing table of the immediate routing
>device.  From there I believe the mac gets dropped, it just becomes an
>IP.  But without a mac address, you can't get mapped.
>
You're missing the whole point of the discussion, and what you say is 
not true.
We were discussing if there was a local MAC-range, which doesn't exist.

About the MAC/IP thing:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/network/nfs/network_layers.html
Shortly: TCP/IP is working on layer 3, the IP adresses will be 
translated to a MAC adres on layer 2.

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