Re: Computer GUID

From: Ron Ruble (raffles2@att.net)
Date: 11/26/02 

From: "Ron Ruble" <raffles2@att.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:32:06 -0500

"Barry Margolin" <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in message
news:L7NE9.16$fP2.184@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
> If you had them on different segments of the same LAN, the switch that
> connects the segments would not be able to handle it properly. It
will
> only map the MAC address to a single port at a time, so packets will
> frequently be sent to the wrong segment.
>
> Perhaps what you meant to say is that you can have them on different
> subnets, but not the same subnet (but if the two subnets are VLANs
> connected to the same switch fabric, you may still have problems).

Thank you for the correction.

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