Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 10BaseT Patch Cables.
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.164140.22209@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov28.171715.21137@shl.com> <1990Nov30.042333.10276@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 16:41:40 GMT

In article <1990Nov30.042333.10276@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> dave@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Dave Schwarz) writes:
>Sitting in front of me I have 2 WD8003e network cards
>each one has the same address 0000c0ed271c. 
>Has anybody else come across this problem, ie more than one card
>with the same network address...

This sort of thing is a well-known problem with Ethernet in general.  Many
manufacturing organizations are very strongly oriented towards turning out
absolutely identical copies, and have great difficulty with the concept of
a part (the ID ROM) that has to be different on each one.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry