From: <fgergo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation?
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:25:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb1951070503300225251fd4fe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Not really plan9 specific, but
1. does anybody know if and how MAC addresses are allocated to network
card manufacturers?
2. do manufacturers guarantee the uniqueness of MAC addresses they build?
3. is it still true (was it ever true), that if I bought 2 NIC's,
they'll have different MAC addresses?
4. is it the responsibility of the OS to override the default MAC
address if another card with the same (possibly overriden) MAC address
was present on the LAN?
thanks: gergo
next reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 10:25 fgergo [this message]
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
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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