Ok I'm going to show my ignorance here, but in my studying, I remember reading that in some cases you have to assign each interface a unique MAC address, as seems to be the case below. However I also thought MAC addresses were permanently assigned address for each NIC, so even if you could assign one, how would you know what to assign it so that it doesn't have the potential to conflict with another?
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Joey Fowler
-----Original Message-----
From: William Swedberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:26 PM
To: Cisco Group Study
Subject: Cat 6509 and Suns
I was trouble shooting and issue with a Sun server and
have found an interesting issue. The admin called and
said they were having a problem getting to certain
network. In my search to find his issue, which turned
out to be his, ;) I found that his Sun box has a Quad
card installed and that he had not given each
interfaces a unique MAC address. The two interfaces
had the same MAC but in different subnets. The 2
interfaces are connected to the same CAT on diff
VLANS. My gut says this is wrong and that it should
be a problem. I can't prove if this is causing an
issue.
The Cat is based on a MAC to port mapping. Wouldn't
the CAT get confused? No trunking or channeling is
happening.
Any thoughts??
William Swedberg CCNP CCDP
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