On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:35:52 +0000
"J.Witvliet--- via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
From: "John Mellor"
<john.mellor@gmail.com<mailto:john.mellor@gmail.com>>
Date: Monday, 2 August 2021 at 15:04:42
To: "users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org"
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
Subject: Re: scanner no longer detected?
On 2021-08-01 7:08 p.m., Cameron Simpson wrote:
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Huh? Am I misinterpreting? The MAC is supposed to be world-wide unique
to each interface. There are a couple of situations where this can
accidentally happen, like VMware using the same poorly-chosen random MAC
for two VMs that breaks everything on that vSwitch, but that's the only
one that I've ever encountered. Having the same MAC on two interfaces is
not legal, so you should expect to break something on any router or
machine that I can think of. If it works, then that router is broken.
Long ago, this as šÆ true.
Then, some mobo manufacturers add the āoptionā to migrate your MACā¦
And not so long ago, mobile phone producers had a brain-fart, and named that
āprivacy-modeā, randomizing MAC-addresses.
John Mellor
And not so long ago, Linux "experts" had a brain-fart, and named that
āprivacy-modeā, randomizing MAC-addresses. :-)
BR, Bob