[Olsr-users] AHCP

[Henning Rogge]

Am Wednesday 25 February 2009 14:28:42 schrieb Roar Bjørgum Rotvik:
> Henning Rogge wrote:
> > Am Wednesday 25 February 2009 10:16:06 schrieb Outback Dingo:
>
> [...]
>
> >> it really shouldnt matter what brand the router is, as Ive never seen
> >> MAC duplication by vendors. Has anyone ?? Someone flip me a
> >> working configuration to look at.
> >
> > If a vendor would produce a colliding MAC he is doing something wrong.
>
> I have seen for myself a MAC collision between two Ethernet cards from
> the same vendor. We had problems with traffic on a LAN and after some
> debugging we discovered that two of the cards had the same MAC address..
>      We needed to change one of the cards to fix things. I don't
> remember the vendor. But it is possible, even if it is very unlikely.
I think that's the reason they put in a 16 Bit random number into the IPv6 
autoconfig.

Henning

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