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Abhishek
Abhishek

Reputation: 103

What happens when two machines have same MAC address in a network?

How the communication between two pc will be done and how the communication in the network will be done ? How do they bot coneect to the internet?? I m assuming may be one pc has spoofed another pc address.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2478

Answers (2)

Trevor Hodgins
Trevor Hodgins

Reputation: 95

Exactly. What eRIZ said.

Sometimes the machines will refuse to connect due collision OR one computer will connect before the another bouncing the other one of the network.

But yeah, it depends how they are configured.

Upvotes: 0

eRIZ
eRIZ

Reputation: 1507

It depends how the machines' MAC address appear onto mac routing table.

https://superuser.com/questions/17696/what-happens-when-two-pcs-have-the-same-mac-adress

Upvotes: 2

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