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Re: DAD question

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Wed, 15 August 2012 11:33 UTC

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On 08/15/2012 07:56 AM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>> Yes, I've seen this for several hardware manufactures. Most memorable were
>> Sun boxes in which all of the 4 network interfaces shared the same MAC
>> after unboxing.
> 
> Note that this is a perfectly valid configuration according to the
> Ethernet standards.

Just curious: were the MAC addresses "globally unique"? (me talking
about the U/L bit in the MAC address).

If they were, then I wonder how they could possibly be
standards-compliant... or whether the U/L should have been named
something else. :-)

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
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