[134278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The tale of a single MAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Corey Quinn)
Sun Jan 2 20:39:16 2011
From: Corey Quinn <corey@sequestered.net>
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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:39:00 -0800
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On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> In the early 90's a friend of mine got a box of 10 HP cards with all =
the same MAC address.
In my early days of network admining, a coworker told me a (apocryphal) =
story of 3com shipping a batch of 80K cards with identical MAC =
addresses, which they then had to recall.
Unfortunately a cursory Google turns up nothing, so I suppose he was =
either misinformed or pulling my leg.
-- Corey Quinn / KB1JWQ
