News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Thu Sep 18 20:42:13 UTC 2003

* sigh *

s/there/their/
s/mps/mbs/
s/:)/:}/


8-)

Richard Irving wrote:
> 
> Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 
>>     Hello Whoever ,
>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 bdragon at gweep.net wrote:
>>
>>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 bdragon at gweep.net wrote:
>>>
>>> manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique.
>>> A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise
>>> using RFC1918 space.
>>
>>
>>     I have to agree with Mr. Shore here .  Mac addresses are NOT
>>     unique from ALL manufacturers '.' .  I do beleive that there was a
>>     a brand (maybe not USA) that the cadr came without mac-address
>>     hard assigned on the card ,  You HAD to ,  using their
>>     configuration tool assign one .  JimL
> 
> 
>   There was actually a fly by nighter that had one
> of the earliest EISA based 100mps FD FE in the early 90's,
> where ALL there cards had the SAME MAC, the people
> issuing ranges had only assigned them the ONE...
> 
>  So, they burned it on  all their cards!
> 
> Really.
> 
> Obviously, you could only use one per network... :P
> 
> And, FWIW, old VAX gear had assignable MAC's....
> 
>   But, other than freak cases, the original point
> is true.. today most MAC's are globally unique.
> 
> HSRP not withstanding.....
> 
> 
> (To every rule, there is an exception, including this one.)