[62522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Thu Sep 18 15:39:52 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:37:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Cc: bdragon@gweep.net, Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309181523040.9896@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
There was another manufacturer one of the really low budget cards, I
forget the brand but they were shipped in a box which looked like a
dunkin's munchkins box. If you bought several boxes of these, I think six
in a box and the entire package was $30 you were likely to find more than
2 or 3 with the same addressing.
These were 10 meg only and I can't for the life of me remember the brand.
Used the tulip driver for linux if that helps refresh memories.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello Whoever ,
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
> > > > MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate
> > > > authority in said case.
> > > > Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate
> > > > authority.
> > > Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC
> > > addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
> > > reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a
> > > MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I
> > > personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
> > > did.
> > > Justin
> > manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique.
> > A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise
> > using RFC1918 space.
> I have to agree with Mr. Shore here . Mac addresses are NOT
> unique from ALL manufacturers '.' . I do beleive that there was a
> a brand (maybe not USA) that the cadr came without mac-address
> hard assigned on the card , You HAD to , using their
> configuration tool assign one . JimL
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