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Re: fxp0 device - Intel NIC
>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:56:23 +0000
>From: redjupiter <redjupiter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Changing the MAC was the easiest and fastest for me. Re-registering a nic
>>with my ISP brings chills down my back. It's always faster for you to
>>correct a mispelled MAC address in the file rather than talking to a
>>support drone who wants you to boot into windows.
>But wouldn't I have conflicts with the realtek NIC? since both must be
>on the same machine which is my gateway.
Unless you have an unusual (i.e., "pathological") network topology, no.
The requirement is not "unique MAC address per NIC per host," but unique
MAC addres per NIC per network (and you *do* have those NICs on
different networks, right?).
Note that until fairly recently, the MAC addresses reported by every NIC
on a Sun machine was the MAC address of the built-in NIC.
Cheers,
david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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David H. Wolfskill david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have no confidence in results obtained through the use of Microsoft products.
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