DECnet (4)
Addressing: addresses are not associated with the physical networks to which nodes are connected
address: area.node (= 16 bits)
- area = 1-63
- node = 1-1023
- ~65,000 nodes can be attached to DECnet network
if a node has a few network interfaces, it uses the same area.node address for each interface
address conversion:
- 12.75 = 12363 (base 10) = 304B (base 16)
- appended to the standard DECnet MAC address AA00.0400 after byte swapped : AA00.0400.4B30