On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Corey Quinn wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > >> In the early 90's a friend of mine got a box of 10 HP cards with all the >> same MAC address. > > In my early days of network admining, a coworker told me a (apocryphal) story > of 3com shipping a batch of 80K cards with identical MAC addresses, which > they then had to recall. > > Unfortunately a cursory Google turns up nothing, so I suppose he was either > misinformed or pulling my leg. >
I have also heard such stories, again from the '90s. Can cause odd failure modes. Regards Marshall > -- Corey Quinn / KB1JWQ > > >
