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 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 already do). > > > > Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.
> This sounds good to me, provided we can still override on the > command-line. I like having the flexibility of knowing what MAC address > a guest will have before the instance is launched. For sure. I've thought to add a check that the address is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally_Administered_Address But I think the Linux network stack doesn't enforce that (inside the guest you can violate the rule with ifconfig) so it wouldn't make sense to enforce it ourselves. We should add a warning though, for the user who cares and who didn't want to break rules. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
