[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 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.

I agree this makes sense. Currently I'm forced to do it in a script.

It's especially silly that uml virtual ethernet devices *don't* get
random mac addresses automatically, while tuntap virtual ethernet
devices *do* (in the same kernel tree!).

> Conditions: the broadcast bit must be 0 and the "locally-assigned address 
> flag" must be 1 (as likely we already do).

random_ether_addr() in include/linux/etherdevice.h already takes care of
this.

Jason



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