[107537] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert D. Scott)
Fri Sep 5 11:01:58 2008
From: "Robert D. Scott" <robert@ufl.edu>
To: "'Robert E. Seastrom'" <rs@seastrom.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <86skseu0hd.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:01:53 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Does this MAC present itself all the time, or just during boot?
Marvel makes a NIC prevalent in some Dell systems, that presents MAC
0c00.0000.0000 during its startup process. If you run port security, and
several people boot their computer within the cam table expiration period,
port security will disable the port. You can work around it but it is time
consuming in large networks where port security are enabled.
Robert D. Scott Robert@ufl.edu
Senior Network Engineer 352-273-0113 Phone
CNS - Network Services 352-392-2061 CNS Receptionist
University of Florida 352-392-9440 FAX
Florida Lambda Rail 352-294-3571 FLR NOC
Gainesville, FL 32611 321-663-0421 Cell
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:rs@seastrom.com]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:33 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses
Forwarded to NANOG in the interests of wider awareness... having been
there and torn out my already scarce hair, duplicate MAC addresses can
really mess up your day...
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Just when you thought this couldn't happen any more...
Copying from a different email list...
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.
