Re: The tale of a single MAC

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Lynda wrote:

> My guess is that you'll never find it on Google, since it happened around 1993-4 or so.

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.

Not to mention the old ARCNet NICs, which all came set to the same ARCNet address by default (one changed the address 
assignment via DIP switches on the cards themselves).

;>

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