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Subject: Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver
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   From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
   Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:55:20 -0600

   Let me clarify what I said earlier.  You cannot have
   identical MAC addresses on two different NICs.

There is nothing illegal about that at all.  As long at
the NICs live on different subnets, it is perfectly fine.
In fact this is pretty common on Sun machines.
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