Re: [uml-devel] Randomize on MAC address when bringing up ethernet iface

2006-06-01 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 23:22, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > > -Original Message- > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > I've being thinking to this and I'm wondering why we > > > > shouldn't do it. When we > > > > > have set no IP or 0.0.0.0, which is

Re: [uml-devel] Randomize on MAC address when bringing up ethernet iface

2006-06-01 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:05, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > I've being thinking to this and I'm wondering why we shouldn't do it. > > When we have set no IP or 0.0.0.0, which is not a unique IP, and we bring > > it up, we should choose a rand

RE: [uml-devel] Randomize on MAC address when bringing up ethernet iface

2006-05-31 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
> -Original Message- > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > I've being thinking to this and I'm wondering why we > shouldn't do it. When we > > have set no IP or 0.0.0.0, which is not a unique IP, and we > bring it up, we > > should choose a random MAC to use

Re: [uml-devel] Randomize on MAC address when bringing up ethernet iface

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > I've being thinking to this and I'm wondering why we shouldn't do it. When we > have set no IP or 0.0.0.0, which is not a unique IP, and we bring it up, we > should choose a random MAC to use. > Conditions: the broadcast bit must be 0

[uml-devel] Randomize on MAC address when bringing up ethernet iface

2006-05-31 Thread Blaisorblade
I've being thinking to this and I'm wondering why we shouldn't do it. When we have set no IP or 0.0.0.0, which is not a unique IP, and we bring it up, we should choose a random MAC to use. Conditions: the broadcast bit must be 0 and the "locally-assigned address flag" must be 1 (as likely we alr