There are some classical cases of assigning the same MAC address to every machine in a batch, resetting the counter used to number them, etc.; unless shown otherwise, these are likely to be errors, not accidental collisions.
-Dave On Apr 4, 2010, at 10:57 AM, jim deleskie wrote: > I've seen duplicate addresses in the wild in the past, I assume there > is some amount of reuse, even though they are suppose to be unique. > > -jim > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, A.B. Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Lots of traffic recently about 64 bits being too short or too long. >> >> What about mac addresses? Aren't they close to exhaustion? Should be. Or it >> is assumed that mac addresses are being widely reused throughout the world? >> All those low cost switches and wifi adapters DO use unique mac addresses? >> > >
