On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Roland Dreier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> +#define MLX4_MAC_HEAD               0x2c9000000ULL

> Is this a good idea?  You're basically choosing 24 random bits within your 
> OUI...
> seems the chance of collision with another MAC used on the same network is
> high enough that it could easily happen in practice on a moderately big 
> network.

yes, this has been brought by Stephen and others on this last back on
September 11th, this year @
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=125263488409128

> Can you pick a reserved range or something?

Using different OUI for the VF device wouldn't help either I think,
since the #VF becomes fairly big even on a modest side cluster with
(say) a VM consuming VF per 1-2 cores.

Or.
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