News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Thu Sep 18 19:37:07 UTC 2003

There was another manufacturer one of the really low budget cards, I
forget the brand but they were shipped in a box  which looked like a
dunkin's munchkins box.  If you bought several boxes of these, I think six
in a box and the entire package was $30 you were likely to find more than
2 or 3 with the same addressing.

These were 10 meg only and I can't for the life of me remember the brand.
Used the tulip driver for linux if that helps refresh memories.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, 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:
> > > > MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate
> > > > authority in said case.
> > > > Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate
> > > > authority.
> > > Even MACs aren't entirely unique.  Some places used to assign MAC
> > > addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be
> > > reconfigured for the assigned MAC.  An admin was freely able to assign a
> > > MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution.  I
> > > personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone
> > > did.
> > > Justin
> > 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
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