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I used to work for a company that sold labels for various third party printer manufacturers, and let me tell you, some of them were VERY lazy when it came to assigning MAC addresses.


yep, not unheard of for cheap unbranded devices to all have the same MAC, unfortunately.


MACs are supposed to be globally unique, but they only really need to be broadcast domain unique, so you can get away with using the same MAC for a lot of devices as long as most people don't use two on one LAN.


I'm aware; that really doesn't make this excusable practice though.




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