On 1/1/11 7:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote: > > So here is the interesting part... Both servers are HP Proliant DL380 G4s, > and both of their NIC1 and NIC2 MACs addresses are exactly the same. Not > spoofd and the OS drivers are not mucking with them ... They¹re burned-in > I triple checked them in their respective BIOS screen. I acquired these two > machines at different times and both were from the grey market. The ³What > the ...² is sitting fresh in my mind ... How can this be? > > In the last 15 years of being in IT, I have never encountered a ³burned-in² > duplicated MACs across two physically different machines. What are the > odds, that HP would dup¹d them and that both would eventually end up at my > shop? Or maybe this type of thing isn¹t big of deal... ? >
None of the HP servers I have contain duplicate MAC addresses. (I just looked through all the iLO2 cards to make sure I wasn't lying.) I'll send you some details offlist. ~Seth