On 4/5/2010 15:36, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, A.B. Jr. 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? > > Since they only really need to be unique per broadcast domain, it doesn't > really matter. You can I could use the same MAC addresses on all our home > gear, and never know it. For manufacturers, it's probably reasonably safe > to reuse MAC addresses they put on 10mbit ISA ethernet cards...if they > were a manufacturer back then.
Seems like they have be unique within a DHCP "domain". And you'd have to pretty much outlaw mobiles. Wouldn't you? (Is there an accepted bit of nomenclature for all of the networks that forward DHCP traffic to a given cluster of servers?) -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml
