[email protected] wrote:
> We just engaged MAC locking across our whole network.  We have seen a
> few strange MAC Lock violations from ports with HP Jetdirect printers
> connected to them.
> 
> Here are the strange MAC addresses we got as violations:
> 
> 2C 00 1B 78 EC 0B
> 
> 68 70 2D 50 43 4C
> 
> These addresses no not decode to any known manufacturer and are not the
> MAC addresses of the jetdirect cards.
> 
> I think they are generated on IPX/SPX, or perhaps AppleTalk, which IS
> enabled unnecessarily on these printers.
> 
> Has anyone else seen HP printers throw wierd MAC addresses like this?
> 
We turned off IPX and Appletalk a while ago, but it does sound like
you're on the right track. If you disable these extra protocols on the
printer, do the extra MAC addresses go away?

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