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Today's Topics:
1. Re: All-zeros MAC (Carlos Vicente)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:44:39 -0400
From: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Netdot-users] All-zeros MAC
To: Brian Candler <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 9/21/12 1:10 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:03:14AM -0400, Carlos Vicente wrote:
>> Brian, bogus addresses are a problem because they will likely not be
>> unique, so there is the potential to create more harm than good.
>
> What sort of harm?
>
> I would rather know that a (non-unique) MAC address is active, than have it
> completely ignored.
>
For example, it could mess up the results of the topology discovery
based on the contents of the L2 forwarding tables.
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cv
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