On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Gavin Tweedie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gav@narx.net" target="_blank">gav@narx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Bad luck for guy #2 who rocks up to the peering point with the same MAC as an existing member eh? Or potentially bad luck for both if nobody notices before they connect.<br></blockquote><div><br>best practice in any peering point is to disallow mac-moves like that - so should not cause an issue for 1st person with mac-address.<br>
<br>should not be a real problem for the 2nd person either as any clueful network equipment pretty much allows you to set the mac-address if you so desire anyway.<br><br> switch#conf t<br> switch(config)#int et17<br> switch(config-if-Et17)#mac-address ?<br>
H.H.H MAC address<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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An interesting stat to know would be what sort of vendor equipment this is occurring on, is it just low end home gateway devices or does the vendor have the same issue on higher end gear?<br></blockquote><div><br>i say its a storm in a teacup.<br>
even if its a NIC, you can override the MAC address anyway on just about anything.<br><br><br>cheers,<br><br>lincoln.<br></div></div>