The tale of a single MAC

Mon Jan 3 06:05:24 UTC 2011

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> I remember that there were several high-profile instances of duplicate 
> MAC addresses being burnt into NICs during the 1990s - once every 2-3 
> years, IIRC.  And those were just the ones that were discussed publicly.

D-Link shipped NAT-boxes around 2003-2004 or so with identical MAC 
addresses (and a "clone your PC mac address to the WAN 
interface"-functionality). I checked my then employer ADSL network and 5% 
of the customer ports had the same MAC address, D-Link support alledgedly 
said something about the MAC address not being "unique enough" and 
directed their customers to the cloning functionality to "solve" the 
problem.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se