% > > >somebody goes to deploy a group of say 20 new NICs they have just bought,
% > > >and encounter one or more duplications.
% > >
% > > Do you have any first hand experience of this happening? I have heard the
% > > story several times, but I would like to see something definitive. I
% > > wonder if it is an "internet urban myth".
% > >
%
% No :-), but I seem to remember that the person who told me about 10 years ago did.
%
% Regards,
% Mark.
3com - 3c501 cards circa 1987
DEC - circa 1985 (although DECnet rewrote the MAC by default)
generic - circa 1996
in the first two cases, the vendor had tools to re-write the mac
inthe latter case, get the money back and buy better cards.
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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