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Reminds me somewhat of getting two pieces of network equipment from a very cheap vendor that have identical Ethernet port MAC addresses. Have seen it more than
by walrus01 4y ago
Reminds me somewhat of getting two pieces of network equipment from a very cheap vendor that have identical Ethernet port MAC addresses. Have seen it more than once.
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- h2odragon 4y agoAs I recall, the 3com 3c509 sold so many copies that they recycled MAC addrs and hoped that the old ones wouldn't collide with the new ones. I had a couple hundred go through my hands but never caught a duplicate.
- xbar 4y agoI recall this. I called it Metcalfe's Law.
- xsmasher 4y agoI used to have a list of "bad" IMEI numbers and android IDs; there were some android phones where the whole run of that model would return the same identifiers. If our code found one of those "bad" ids, we'd have to pick a new UUID to use as an identifier for that phone and save it to the flash.
- lazide 4y agoThere is also a brand of Chromebooks that an entire model run had the exact same serial # and machine ID. Same issue. Years ago I made a large scale device data storage system, and one of the key design constraints I included that always threw people for a loop when they saw it was 'device unique IDs are not unique'. The system explicitly scoped all data in such a way that any collisions would always occur within a given customer that owned/controlled the device, to avoid data leakage, security issues, etc. Because yeah, it's amazing the corners people will cut. Last I checked, the system was still working well at 4+ billion devices, so I guess it worked out.