Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, anil dahiya wrote:
>
> > I want to assign mac addres to virtual adpater and mac
> > address should be like that if it should not create
> > problem in arp resoultion(i.e. mac address should be
> > as real card which able to comunicate on lan )
>
> You may be able to get away with using a MAC address
> inside the OUI range that XenSource registered.
>
Any MAC with bit 0 clear and bit 1 set in the first octet is "local
use"; the best thing to do (unless you have your own OUI) is just to
pick a random address inside this range. You should only run into
collision problems when you get close to 2^23 hosts on a network.
-hpa
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