[62524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Sep 18 15:47:03 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:36:26 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <20030918143023.152040a8.jtk@depaul.edu> from "John Kristoff" at Sep 18, 2003 02:30:23 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:10:57 -0400 (EDT)
> bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
>
> > manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique.
>
> Theoretically. I didn't experience it personally, but I believe there
> was at least one fairly well known event a few years back where a
> manufacturer shipped cards with duplicated UAAs.
Ascend had a run of Pipeline ISDN routers where the record stuck
the record stuck the record stuck [1] the MAC incrementor stuck
on the production line.
No one noticed for months until some poor guy had TWO on one
LAN segment...
[1] Apologies to Monty Python..
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