[ih] duplicate address detection

[Lawrence Stewart]

Not exactly a duplicate address detection issue, but the 48 bit MACs did have their teething problems too.

Dave Gifford, then a summer intern at the PARC Computer Science Lab got an early D0 machine, which just acted flakey.  Sometimes networking would work but not very often.

Some detective work revealed he had been issued MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00

-Larry

The D0’s turned out to be too expensive for workstations, but they had a great deal of memory bandwidth for the day, and found a niche as printer controllers.