> > For manually assigned addresses, I believe the ratio is closer
> > to 1:10 or 1:100 (unmeasurable, of course).
> 
> I'd be really interested to know if anyone has any indicative
> figures on MAC address collision: it is inevitable that somewhere
> out there there are two adaptors with the same MAC address due
> to human frailties, but how many?

Another possible source of collision would be people
changing their mac address each time they change access
network for privacy reasons  (to prevent one form of
tracking).

alper


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