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From: heemstra@RUGRCX.RUG.NL
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Duplicate Addresses in Western Digital cards
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Date: 3 Jan 91 13:55:35 GMT
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I'm amazed to hear of this problem this late; we did have problems
with duplicate addressed WD boards and we did, as a matter of fact,
receive replacement boards out of Ireland.
        The duplicate addresses at our site all had addresses in the
range 0000c0xx2x1c and we asked Western Digital to confirm this and
better yet to narrow it down; we received no confirmation whatsoever
about this hunch, but as you are asking for a range, we think it is
in the mentioned one.
        One thing left to say: as many as 100 ethernet boards with duplicate
addresses? How come we got about 20 in a shipment of about 250 boards?
Maybe one of you can get more out of WD than we did. Success to you all.

Mente H. Heemstra
Computing Centre
University Groningen
Netherlands

P.S.: It could very well be possible that we talked to all the wrong people
      at Western Digital: does anyone have any idea who the right people
      are ???