Re: The tale of a single MAC

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

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