[134257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The tale of a single MAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Jan 1 22:40:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <C9454E3A.2921F%graham@g-rock.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:10:38 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Graham Wooden <graham@g-rock.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've seen duplicate MAC addresses but only on no name made in china
NICs installed on cheap (assembled from parts) PCs at a school
computer lab.
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Graham Wooden <graham@g-rock.net> wrote:
>
> In the last 15 years of being in IT, I have never encountered a =C2=B3bur=
ned-in=C2=B2
> duplicated MACs across two physically different machines. =C2=A0What are =
the
> odds, that HP would dup=C2=B9d them and that both would eventually end up=
at my
> shop? =C2=A0Or maybe this type of thing isn=C2=B9t big of deal... ?
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)