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Re: what about 48 bits?
From: Franck Martin <franck () genius com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:40:14 +1200 (FJT)
----- "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () 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 outofMAC addresses. Instead of going to get more - if I even can! - I recycle those MAC addressesThere 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.
Current thread:
- Re: what about 48 bits?, (continued)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? joel jaeggli (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jon Lewis (Apr 06)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Larry Sheldon (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Sokolov (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Mark Smith (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jim Burwell (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Steven Bellovin (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Mark Smith (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Stefan Bethke (Apr 07)