RE: disabling Intel PSN

Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:12:11 -0700 (MST)


On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, David Schwartz wrote:

>
> > > Sounds like a grand idea to me.
> >
> > Currently we disable the PSN at boot, always
>
> Is there any special reason we do this (by default)? We don't try to hide
> MAC addresses.

MAC address should be unique but isn't always (actually seen a collision
before, and some/all cards can have theirs changed in linux with ifconfig
hw xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or so.)

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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