When two machines on the same local network have the same MAC address, what should you do? What a fantastic idea! What strategy would they use to accomplish this? Where did these two PCs think they might find a working network connection? The outcome of a collision between these two networking devices is completely unpredictable. I’m wondering what exactly you mean by it.

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When two machines on the same local network have the same MAC address, what should you do? What a fantastic idea! What strategy would they use to accomplish this? Where did these two PCs think they might find a working network connection? The outcome of a collision between these two networking devices is completely unpredictable. I’m wondering what exactly you mean by it.

 

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