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I'm not sure if your quote is from personal experience but... and this is totally cliche from the era... I was setting up a Beowulf Cluster made up of salvage 4
by tonyarkles 4y ago
I'm not sure if your quote is from personal experience but... and this is totally cliche from the era... I was setting up a Beowulf Cluster made up of salvage 486s in the early 2000s because why not? We were running into some really bizarre issues, and eventually we got down to the just pinging the machines from each other and started discovering that when we went to ping one of them, we would get two replies!
Sure enough, two generic NE2K NICs had duplicated MAC addresses!
- mensetmanusman 4y agoBeowulf Cluster. I just died and woke up in the 90s
- tonyarkles 4y agoNaturally, it started as a joke. My buddy had a pile of machines that the school board had decided to throw away. Being avid /. fans, I of course said “can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?” So then it’s 2am and his basement closet is really warm…
- thaeli 4y agoHa, yeah. I had the same experience, around the same time, also on a Beowulf cluster.
- c0nsumer 4y agoI've had this problem in modern times where, when setting up Windows PCs (via WinPE at our enterprise) some NICs would very occasionally not work right with the provided driver and end up with some default MAC. Doesn't work out so well when you have a room full of these PCs all getting imaged at thhe same time and suddenly half a dozen on the same switch have the same MAC. :\ (I believe it came down to a BIOS problem and a new version sorted it out.)