On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 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.
Although I must admit that the first time I (unknowingly) had two
machines w/ the same MAC on a network, the failure modes were /really/
confusing :). (I had two Suns that had both been configured with c0ffee
(a la the faq) by their previous owners :).
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