Hey all,

Don't know whether to post this here or wherever, but here goes. As some of you might remember I had a WSOD on my Nokia 770. Before that, I had configured my router at home to always assign the same IP address to the 770. So far so good. Fast forward a couple of months (and a few hours on the phone), I get my 770 back and cannot ping it. So I look up my router's config pages... and there I notice that my 770 is reporting a different MAC address -- ending in C0 FF EE. Weird. Very weird.

Any similar NIT Ghost Stories anyone?

They probably swapped your 770, or the motherboard/wireless card (not sure if they are on the same board). The MAC address is unique to each wireless interface.

technut: Right, that's what I figured too. But what are the odds that his MAC address will spell be C0 FF EE (coffee anyone?).

convulted: If you don't trust your router you can check what the tablet things it is by typing this in Xterminal:
That's awesome, though.

Doh! Thanks for spelling that out for me... I didn't even notice.

Hehe that was the point of the story It really did freak me out when I saw it spell "coffee"!
Actually, I accepted some insurance money in return for my 770 after it got thrown out the window when I was abroad (fell two storeys onto solid concrete--fully functional but with a nasty set of about 5 vertical lines running down the left hand side of the screen; I was seriously impressed, as the hard cover was turned around so that the screen was exposed), so there's no way of checking it.

1/256 * 1/256 * 1/256 = 1 in 5.9605e-008

So pretty long odds that if you chose the last 3 16bit numbers at random, you'd get it to spell coffee. However the chance is probably closer to 1 (certain) that someone will actually get this combination as the numbers are not chosen at random, but rather are incremented (or something like that anyway).

If it's actually that simple, then the 12648430th MAC addressed device that Nokia produce should have that combination (that may be a bit too simplistic, but you get the point, it will happen for someone).

Cheers,

Si