On 19/07/2014 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Actually the standard uses the first 2 bits for this. It is called local > scope MAC addresses. This leaves 46 bits for the random content. Thus if you > have a network of 10000 devices the probablity of a collision is 7x10^-7
Hello Robert, Not all locally-assigned addresses are available for use as random MAC addresses. Last I looked that are historical uses of LAS for DECnet and other protocols from 00:… through to 05:…. It would be useful if the IEEE recommended a range of LAS for host use (ie, virtual machine MAC addresses) and specified a range for your random MAC address proposal. Such a range should leave sufficient LAS for other potential future applications. Regards, glen _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
