Mailing List Archive: Q: Does ntop detect duplicate MAC addresses?

No one station can detect duplicate MAC addresses. It takes a device like a
switch, a router, or a smart netadmin to detect that.

Even seeing multiple packets with different IPs but the same MAC isn't
conclusive. You can put more than one IP address on a workstation.
(Although if none of *your* workstations are configured that way, you've got
it.)

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Howe [mailto:achowe@snert.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:33 AM
> To: ntop maillist
> Subject: [Ntop] Q: Does ntop detect duplicate MAC addresses?
>
>
> 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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