[124834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 5 17:56:38 2010
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:26:53 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:53:25 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:26:53 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
> I'm 3COM, I made ISA 10Base2 / 10Base5 cards in the 90s. I run out of
> MAC addresses. Instead of going to get more - if I even can! - I
> recycle those MAC addresses
There were several cases of production run errors from multiple vendors,
where the MAC address went 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, *thwack*, 18, 19....
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