Drivers are stupid, and just like the platform ignores an all zeros
permanent address, so should it ignore all ones.
NetworkManager[509]: [1453743778.854919] [devices/nm-device.c:8885]
nm_device_update_hw_address(): [0x190370] (eth0): hardware address now
86:18:52:xx:xx:xx
NetworkManager[509]:
While we're on this topic, what about other types of invalid MAC
addresses? Like ones with the Multicast bit set (odd first octet), or
ones with the LAA (Locallay Administered Address) bit set (2nd least
significant bit of first octet, e,g, x2: x6: xa: xe:).
For Multicast Ethernet addresses, I
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 13:41 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> While we're on this topic, what about other types of invalid MAC
> addresses? Like ones with the Multicast bit set (odd first octet),
> or
> ones with the LAA (Locallay Administered Address) bit set (2nd least
> significant bit of first