An ARM7 MAC station address question: My NXP LPC2468 manual states that the station address 0 register MAC_SA0 expects the MAC address 1st octet to be loaded to bits 15:8, the 2nd octet to be loaded to bits 7:0. MAC_SA1 and MAC_SA2 expect subsequent octets in the same fashion.
My question is which end of my six bytes is the 1st octet? That is, should I have the following purely hypothetical MAC address:
0x0A-0x0B-0x0C-0x0D-Ox0E-0x0F
is the "1st octet" the 0x0A or the 0x0F? I would think the "1st octet" would be the 0x0A, but some sample code implies it's the other way around. I've really no experience to make a call on this.
Thanks for your thoughts, Doug