Re: Promise card no longer work as ide0/1?

From: Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 21:12:05 EST


On Tue, 2 May 2000, Tim Coleman wrote:

> Isn't there a problem with this in that it is possible (although not
> necessary all that likely) for two nics to have the same MAC address?

My understanding on this was that it's not possible... the first byte or
two is assigned to a manufacturer and the rest is supposed to be unique
within that manufacturer. So all MAC addresses should be unique.

Matt Dharm

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