[124860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Apr 6 15:54:38 2010
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:53:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <F0E0B2C0-1F1A-4FE4-BB73-8737F1007958@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> Until you buy 25 cards with the same MAC address and deploy them all across
>> your enterprise
>
> I don't think that's possible given that Jon was suggesting.
Given what I was suggesting, no...but there have been multiple cases of a
vendor screwing up and producing large runs of devices/cards all with the
same MAC address. IIRC, there was a batch of Netgear PCI NICs where you
might find all the NICs in a multipack box had the same MAC address.
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