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<div>On Nov 25, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">An
acquaintance told me how, when he was refreshing several labs worth of desktops, had some "interesting" problems. Eventually he realised that for every 257 machines, the manufacturers (Dell) had used 256 MAC addresses - 2 of the machine sin each batch had
duplicate MACs. Of course this would normally not be a problem as the chances of buying the 2 machines were very slim - but they'd bought several thousand in one batch !</span></blockquote>
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