Does ntop detect duplicate MAC addresses?
A computer store I deal with tells me it is possible from their
experience to end up with duplicate MAC addresses in a network,
particularly when a motherboard with intergrated ethernet is flashed
with a BIOS upgrade. Some BIOS upgrades reset the MAC address to a
factory default. They painfully found this out once while updating a
school's network and endup with several duplicate MACs.
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Anthony C Howe +33 6 11 89 73 78
http://www.snert.com/ ICQ# 7116561
"Microsoft (cough, sputter, spit, !@#$%) ..."
A computer store I deal with tells me it is possible from their
experience to end up with duplicate MAC addresses in a network,
particularly when a motherboard with intergrated ethernet is flashed
with a BIOS upgrade. Some BIOS upgrades reset the MAC address to a
factory default. They painfully found this out once while updating a
school's network and endup with several duplicate MACs.
--
Anthony C Howe +33 6 11 89 73 78
http://www.snert.com/ ICQ# 7116561
"Microsoft (cough, sputter, spit, !@#$%) ..."