On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:00:08AM -0700, Michael Zappe wrote: > > As to question 4, nope. The OS has no good way of determining a new MAC > address to override to (The OS doesn't have an OUI, and then how do you > pick the serial number after that??),
Pick a random number, set the local allocation bit (second bit on wire) and then test the address to see if anyone responds to it. Didn't DECnet do something like that? DF > and it's not considered a real > problem because of the uniqueness of MACs. Not to mention you don't > even want to think about how a switch could get confused by the whole > situation... :-) > > Mike
