----- "Valdis Kletnieks" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:26:53 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said: > > I'm 3COM, I made ISA 10Base2 / 10Base5 cards in the 90s. I run out > of > > MAC addresses. Instead of going to get more - if I even can! - I > > recycle those MAC addresses > > There were several cases of production run errors from multiple > vendors, > where the MAC address went 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, *thwack*, 18, > 19....
And to make the problem worse, they are likely to end up in the same shop, and you get them when you purchase several of them.