mherger wrote: > > 1. faking MAC addresses is a bad thing. MAC addresses are supposed to be > > globally unique. > > 2. faking MAC addresses using a schema known to be used with a system is > > even worse, as probability to conflict with some other address is even > greater. > > 3. faking MAC addresses on a free product to mimic a commercial product > > sucks badly, as you're potentially going to kill a paid for device. > > I asked Triode and others to no longer allow to fake SB addresses. If > you put a paying customers device at risk by going the cheap way, we > might need to lock out software players all together. And I'm sure you > don't want to go there. > > There's no real reason to fake a MAC address from the SB range anyway. > > -- > > Michael
Mac addresses starting with 02: are locally administered (=software addresses), so only local network manager needs to them unique and commercial cards wont cause a conflict. Look at the mac address definition: wikipedia.org MAC_address So using that range is really totally legal and it is needed if same computer runs multiple squeezelite players, because cli protocol uses mac address as player id, not the given name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ khaho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64334 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
