[107534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Sep 5 10:36:35 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:36:24 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <86skseu0hd.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:32:46AM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> mac address 04:4b:80:80:80:03, was showing up in multiple places
> across the network. I googled the mac address and discovered that
> other people are having the same issue with this mac address. Below
> are some links describing the problem:
>
> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=22148
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-73469.html
>
> I just wanted everyone to know about this problem in case you run
> across similar slow "connectivity" issues. I believe the network card
> is made by NVIDIA.
FWIW, IEEE's OUI lookup page says that's not assigned to *anyone*.
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
Cheers,
-- jra
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