Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

[Richard Irving <rirving () onecall net>]

* sigh *

s/there/their/
s/mps/mbs/
s/:)/:}/


8-)

Richard Irving wrote:
> Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> >     Hello Whoever ,
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 bdragon () gweep net wrote:
> >
> > > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 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 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
>
>
>   There was actually a fly by nighter that had one
> of the earliest EISA based 100mps FD FE in the early 90's,
> where ALL there cards had the SAME MAC, the people
> issuing ranges had only assigned them the ONE...
>
>  So, they burned it on  all their cards!
>
> Really.
>
> Obviously, you could only use one per network... :P
>
> And, FWIW, old VAX gear had assignable MAC's....
>
>   But, other than freak cases, the original point
> is true.. today most MAC's are globally unique.
>
> HSRP not withstanding.....
>
>
> (To every rule, there is an exception, including this one.)