Hey Seth, thanks for the reply. I don't use the iLO port, so I didn't look at it's MAC within the BIOS, however my issue isn't that the MACs are the same within a physical machine. They're different, just like all the other HP gear ... It's that I have two machines that the MACs are identical. Like Server-A's NIC1 matches Server-B's NIC1 ... And the same goes for NIC2. Heck, maybe even their iLO matches too. I just re-read my post and I can see where maybe I didn't explain it properly. Yesterday was a long day ... I guess it's not that big of deal now, I resolved it rather quickly by putting Server-B on another VLAN. On 1/2/11 12:56 AM, "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
On 1/1/11 7:33 PM, Graham Wooden wrote:
So here is the interesting part... Both servers are HP Proliant DL380 G4s, and both of their NIC1 and NIC2 MACs addresses are exactly the same. Not spoofd and the OS drivers are not mucking with them ... They¹re burned-in I triple checked them in their respective BIOS screen. I acquired these two machines at different times and both were from the grey market. The ³What the ...² is sitting fresh in my mind ... How can this be?
In the last 15 years of being in IT, I have never encountered a ³burned-in² duplicated MACs across two physically different machines. What are the odds, that HP would dup¹d them and that both would eventually end up at my shop? Or maybe this type of thing isn¹t big of deal... ?
None of the HP servers I have contain duplicate MAC addresses. (I just looked through all the iLO2 cards to make sure I wasn't lying.) I'll send you some details offlist.
~Seth