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Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:00:58 -0500
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 02:10 PM, bdragon () gweep net wrote:
manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique. A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise using RFC1918 space.
I would say _supposed_ to be unique. Surely some cheapo manufacturer has recycled addresses from their old ISA card days.
Back in the mainframe days, admins used to always set the MAC addresses of devices on the token rings, since the MAC address was used to bid on which node managed the ring. I have seen people fat-finger it too.
Current thread:
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch, (continued)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Aaron Dewell (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch bdragon (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Mr. James W. Laferriere (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Scott Granados (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Richard Irving (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Richard Irving (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch John Kristoff (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch David Lesher (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Dominic J. Eidson (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Crist Clark (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Chris Boyd (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch David G. Andersen (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Vadim Antonov (Sep 17)
- Charlotte, NC Services Wanted Ray Burkholder (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 17)