From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:53:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424B3BE9.2020500@ajft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7844a6cbb71a5d167d58cb7c0302621b@collyer.net>
geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> MAC addresses aren't supposed to collide; they're supposed to be
> globally unique. So it's manufacturer's responsibility to get this
> right. Users who override the MAC address do so at their own risk.
Supposedly.
Unless they're the cheap taiwanese clones of NE2000 cards that my
previous employer bought about ten years ago. The first couple worked,
since they were on different bits of cable, then everything went
pear-shaped. 50 *identical* reverse-engineered chinese copy cards anyone?
> I'm not convinced that there's a genuine problem here, let alone a
> problem worth solving.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 10:25 fgergo
2005-03-30 10:45 ` McLone
2005-03-30 11:20 ` geoff
2005-03-30 11:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-30 13:00 ` fgergo
2005-03-30 13:19 ` Artem Letko
2005-03-30 13:20 ` geoff
2005-03-30 23:53 ` Adrian Tritschler [this message]
2005-03-30 18:00 ` Michael Zappe
2005-03-30 23:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2005-03-31 0:20 ` Michael Zappe
2005-03-31 5:34 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-03-31 14:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2005-03-31 15:00 ` boyd, rounin
2005-03-31 6:50 ` boyd, rounin
2005-03-31 6:53 boyd, rounin
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