Lab 3 email question

Below is an email question.  Posted on the forums to help others with the same question.

 

Question 1 asked "what is your computer/phone/tablet MAC address". Do we need to find three MAC addresses--computer, phone, and tablet? Or just choosing one of them is ok. 

Question 5a asked the range of 'slots' of second attempt to transmit a packet. So the answer is needing to wait 0, 1, 2, or 3 slots. Is it correct? I am just little confused... 

The last one is it said Question2 requires using the Excel spreadsheet in the beginning of sheet. Isn't OUI field equal to the first three bytes in MAC address?What does using excel spreadsheet mean? Could you give me some suggestions?

 

 

answers:

Q1.   Only choose a single MAC address.  It can come from your computer OR your phone OR your tablet (heck, even your ps-3 or xbox!).    Everyone has different resources, so anything with a real (as opposed to virtual) MAC will work.

 

Q5a.   Completely correct.   The first time it will wait (0 or 1) timeslots.   Second time, 0,1,2, or 3 timeslots.

 

Ignore the excel spreadsheet.    I create pdf files from latex files (not that any of you need to worry about this, but it is like hand written html), and recycle the format.   This is leftover from lab 2 ... Sloppiness on my part.   Normally I wouldnt answer Q5A, but your reward for catching that incorrect statement.

 

Yes OUI is the first 3 bytes of the MAC address (MAC address is 6 bytes).   Completely ignore the statement about needing excel!