Basically they aren't compliant and when we had engineers onsite they simply
tried to claim the sun using 1 MAC on all interfaces was wrong and we should
fix that.

Standards? Not important.. :-)

James

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>On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:48:49PM -0400, jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
>> Certain broken network switches (cabletron's come to mind running securefast)
>> ignore the spec that a machine connected to different logical networks
>> can use 1 MAC.
>> 
>> The cabletron's use the MAC as the key for switching traffic and ignores the
>> vlan information for the ports. So what ends up happening is it rounds robins
>> packets (and you see horrible packet loss) and packets on either network
>> appear on the other.
>> 
>> That's one application I've had to change MAC's before since I couldn't get
>> the switches changed out and Cabletron was convinced that a host returning
>> 1 MAC for all cards was wrong. (Who cares about standards....)
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>How could such hardware work in a 802.1q environnement then ?
>Not to mention that then you could have one machine talk to the machine
>of another VLAN just by knowing its MAC addr ...
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>Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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