[134285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The tale of a single MAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Mon Jan 3 09:43:10 2011
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:41:59 -0600
From: Jima <nanog@jima.tk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C9454E3A.2921F%graham@g-rock.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 01/01/2011 09:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote:
> In the last 15 years of being in IT, I have never encountered a ³burned-in²
> duplicated MACs across two physically different machines. What are the
> odds, that HP would dupıd them and that both would eventually end up at my
> shop? Or maybe this type of thing isnıt big of deal... ?
Out of curiosity, have you checked if there's a sticker on the board
with the MAC address(es)? I know a lot of vendors do that.
Jima
