[134488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The tale of a single MAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jethro R Binks)
Thu Jan 6 08:35:31 2011
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:35:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks@strath.ac.uk>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D214329.1060701@deaddrop.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Lynda wrote:
> Google does NOT know all. I was there. I have had to deal with a
> building full of such wickedness. I administered DNS (in my copious
> spare time) for two subdomains, and managed the network in the building
> (a not inconsiderable /22, and also in my spare time), and started
> getting frantic calls from people who were getting knocked off the
> network because their machine had the same MAC address as another.
>
> I had trouble believing it at first, but after dealing with five of them
> (all Gateways, and yes, all with the same MAC address), I directed the
> local sysadmins to disable the nic that came with them, and to replace
> it with a spare. I understand that there were 30,000 of them, all with
> the same address. My guess is that you'll never find it on Google, since
> it happened around 1993-4 or so.
You will now.
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Jethro R Binks, Network Manager,
Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, number SC015263.
