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There was another manufacturer one of the really low budget cards, I forget the brand but they were shipped in a box which looked like a dunkin's munchkins box. If you bought several boxes of these, I think six in a box and the entire package was $30 you were likely to find more than 2 or 3 with the same addressing. These were 10 meg only and I can't for the life of me remember the brand. Used the tulip driver for linux if that helps refresh memories. On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Whoever , > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote: > > > > MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate > > > > authority in said case. > > > > Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate > > > > authority. > > > Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC > > > addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be > > > reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a > > > MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I > > > personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone > > > did. > > > Justin > > manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique. > > A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise > > using RFC1918 space. > I have to agree with Mr. Shore here . Mac addresses are NOT > unique from ALL manufacturers '.' . I do beleive that there was a > a brand (maybe not USA) that the cadr came without mac-address > hard assigned on the card , You HAD to , using their > configuration tool assign one . JimL > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | > | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | > | [email protected] | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ >
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