Jeff Moden (10/27/2010)
Paul White NZ (10/26/2010)
So, does anyone know of an article that guarantees that ethernet addresses a globally unique because that's the only way such a guarantee could be made.
Aside from the article you just read you mean? 😛
BWAA-HAAA!!! Oh no... Not quite what I meant. I know that 48 bit MAC addresses are larger than they'll ever use and when they run out of those in about a billion years, they can switch over the the 64 bit version. 😉 What I meant was the safe-guards a manufacturer uses to not accidentally repeat numbers. Some of the less popular brands may not be so careful.
You may recall a litle problem some time back when daisy-chaining certain disc brands (all same brand or differnt brands, didn't matter) was pretty impossible ith windows and with several other platforms. There was a story that that was caused by duplicate GUIDs, but I'm not sure whether I believe it or not.
Tom