On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Lynda wrote:
Google does NOT know all. I was there. I have had to deal with a building full of such wickedness. I administered DNS (in my copious spare time) for two subdomains, and managed the network in the building (a not inconsiderable /22, and also in my spare time), and started getting frantic calls from people who were getting knocked off the network because their machine had the same MAC address as another.
I had trouble believing it at first, but after dealing with five of them (all Gateways, and yes, all with the same MAC address), I directed the local sysadmins to disable the nic that came with them, and to replace it with a spare. I understand that there were 30,000 of them, all with the same address. My guess is that you'll never find it on Google, since it happened around 1993-4 or so.
You will now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks, Network Manager, Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263.