[134279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The tale of a single MAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sun Jan 2 21:00:12 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <1B9985A3-5F00-47FE-BCB3-265A673C9C71@sequestered.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:00:02 -0500
To: Corey Quinn <corey@sequestered.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Corey Quinn wrote:
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> On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
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>> In the early 90's a friend of mine got a box of 10 HP cards with all =
the same MAC address.
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> 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.
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> Unfortunately a cursory Google turns up nothing, so I suppose he was =
either misinformed or pulling my leg.
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I have also heard such stories, again from the '90s. Can cause odd =
failure modes.=20
Regards
Marshall
> -- Corey Quinn / KB1JWQ
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