Hi, Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The versions that include a MAC address, time, and serial number for > the machine come pretty close, presuming that the user has not > overwritten the MAC address with something else. It's unique at > manufacturing time. Not even that is guaranteed. I remember that, about 8 years ago, me and a co-student bought a cheap "network starting kit" each, containing two network kards and a crossover cable. Now, it turned out, that the first cards in both packages had the same mac address, and the second cards as well, so we could not network together using proper cabling and a hub. Luckily, the mac address was flashable in an eeprom, and so my friend "fixed" his hards with those from two 10 MBit Coax cards we had abandoned in favour of the new twisted pair network. AFAIR, in the end it turned out that the whole charge of cards was manufactured this way. Officially, it was a bug in the eeprom content generating software, but there were rumours that the manufacturer wanted to avoid paying the registration fees for the mac address ranges... Just gettin' off topic, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in Europe! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org
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