Subject: Re: The impossible has happened.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/12/1996 23:16:00
At 06:19 PM 3/12/96 -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> While testing ethernet things, I discovered that the
>impossible has happened. I have two ethernet cards with the same
>ethernet (raw) address. Actually, it's highly unlikely that this is
>true, but I get the following from my messages file (and on boot):
If you have two Ethernet boards installed in your Sun, they will
both use the same address. The reasoning behind this is that both cards
should be on different subnets. This is normal or so I am told.
Mike.
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