Re: what about 48 bits?

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, jim deleskie wrote:

I've seen duplicate addresses in the wild in the past, I assume there is some amount of reuse, even though they are suppose to be unique.

5 percent of the mac addresses in a ADSL population used the same MAC address. Turned out to be some D-link device that didn't have unique address but they all had the same, and had a feature where you could "clone" the internal PC MAC address if you wanted to, otherwise it used some default address. D-link support responded to customer inquiries with "yes, we know that they're not unique enough". Nuff said, avoid. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se