On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:13:03PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> [MEGA SNIP]
> It isn't easy to find out somebody usurped your MAC, and fixing it isn't
> easy either (they can't talk to each other for coordination!). Remember
> Ethernet got to be wildly successful because it is _simple_, and being
> simple it is dirt cheap. Doing as you suggest would complicate things
> inmensely, for no real benefit. Just let the factory-set MACs be, unless
> you _really_ need to change it (some stupid piece of software tied to a MAC
> on a fried NIC perhaps). In that _very_ rare case, you make sure by hand
> that no problems arise.
Then it would be impossible to have a mapping such that the same
card is always the same interface number by using the MAC address,
because this would break on Sun hardware. The defence rests.
Tim
-- Tim Coleman <tim@beastor.mine.nu> Software Developer/Systems Administrator/RDBMS Specialist/Linux Advocate University of Waterloo Honours Co-op Combinatorics & Optimization "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain
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