> 'cause its illegal...each device on each net must have a globally
> unique address. The fact that you can make it work is irrelevent.

No, it's not.  Conceptually, ethernet addresses are per machine, not per
interface, contrary to e.g. IP-addresses.

Only people building ethernet interfaces for machines that don't have a
unique id themselves (like the pc) have to assign an ethernet address per
interface as it resides in a rom on the card.

I'm not 100% (albeit quite) sure about this, but I can dig up references
if you like.
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