Two different suppliers - one was out of Wisconsin (I believe; it's been some time), and the other of Phoenix for the most recent batch.
I have lots and lots of HP server gear - and never encountered such bizarre issue. On 1/1/11 9:59 PM, "Brielle Bruns" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/1/11 8:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: >> So here is the interesting part... Both servers are HP Proliant DL380 G4s, >> and both of their NIC1 and NIC2 MACs addresses are exactly the same. Not >> spoofd and the OS drivers are not mucking with them ... They¹re burned-in >> I triple checked them in their respective BIOS screen. I acquired these two >> machines at different times and both were from the grey market. The ³What >> the ...² is sitting fresh in my mind ... How can this be? > > > From the same grey market supplier? > > I know HP has a disc they put out which updates all the firmware/bios in > a specific server model, its not too far fetched that a vendor might > have a modified version that also either purposely or accidentally > changes the MAC address. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure where the > MAC is stored - maybe an eeprom or a portion of the bios flash. Or, it > could be botched flashing that blew away the portion of memory where > that was stored and the system defaulted to a built in value. > > Excellent example is, IIRC, the older sparc stuff, where the ethernet > cards didn't have MAC addresses as part of the card, but were stored in > non-volatile or battery backed memory. Memory goes poof, and you'll > have problems. Some WRT54G/WAP54Gs suffer from the same problem when > throwing third party firmware on there.
