> From: Henrik Nordström <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2015, 10:17 > Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [RFC] Serial number on sunxi devices > > ons 2015-03-18 klockan 10:16 +0100 skrev Irgendeiner: >> I don't understand why checksums and other nasty problems come to play >> a role? > > Not for MAC assignment, but general configuration data or integrity > validation purpose sure.
The MAC should have bit 0 of the first octet unset so it is unicast, not multicast. Also if you are using a locally created MAC, not universally allocated, then bit 1 of the same octet should be set. For more details see: http://linux-sunxi.org/Ethernet#Setting_the_MAC_address http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/WhereCanIGetAValidMACAddress Al -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
