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HP Procurve DHCP snooping bizarre source mac-address

 
becky_pearson
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HP Procurve DHCP snooping bizarre source mac-address

Hi,

 

We are getting a bizarre source mac-address (00ab00-000000) as the source in multiple syslog messages from several Procurve switches:

 

00858 dhcp-snoop: backplane: client address dc0ea1-676b14 not equal to source MAC 00ab00-000000 detected on port 3

 

I cannot find any vendor who uses this mac-address. the ports are always the same and are across different geographical locations

 

Any ideas??