Patent ID: 7630324
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for burning a MAC address into a network card in the course of making the network card, the method comprising the steps of: storing a plurality of MAC addresses in a burning platform, the burning platform sending one of the MAC addresses to a burning device, and then burning said one of the MAC addresses to the network card via the burning device; the burning platform reading a MAC address of the network card, and comparing the address of the network card to said one of the MAC addresses which have been sent to the burning device to valuate the MAC address of the network card is correct or not; the burning platform sending said one of the MAC addresses and a serial number of the network card to a server, and compares them to MAC addresses and serial numbers that the server has stored to prevent MAC address to be reused; wherein the burning platform burns the network card through the steps of: