[124835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Mon Apr 5 18:40:56 2010
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From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
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----- "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> 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....
And to make the problem worse, they are likely to end up in the same shop, and you get them when you purchase several of them.
