Jos Laake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> Yup, that's what the FAQ said, too, but the chip in my (older) IPC
> only has the barcode and not the three bytes. I guess I'll be
> making mine up as well. That's okay, my LAN is local to the office
> only.
The Ethernet (MAC) address has to be unique in the networks to which the
machine is connected, that's all. An easy way to guarantee that is to make
each card's address unique worldwide, but that is really way overkill.
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