From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:25:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003222325.35994.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA7E79C.9070100@lwfinger.net>
On Monday 22 March 2010 22:56:44 Larry Finger wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what characteristic could be used to
> generate a unique MAC address for a box in a udev rule?
/dev/urandom
Yeah, there's the chance of clashes. In practice there won't be any clashes,
however. If you think there's a real risk, you should start playing
the lottery tomorrow. You'll immediately win a million dollars so you don't have
to worry about those questions anymore. ;)
In fact, I think the risk for mac clashes is not really reduced by generating the mac
address from serial numbers, whatever, etc...
--
Greetings, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 23:22 [PATCH V2] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk Larry Finger
2010-03-22 6:28 ` Calvin Walton
2010-03-22 8:37 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 15:06 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 21:55 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 22:19 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 22:28 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 21:56 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 22:25 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2010-03-22 23:45 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-23 8:52 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-23 14:25 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-23 20:58 ` Calvin Walton
2010-03-23 22:02 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-24 14:16 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-24 19:21 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-26 3:47 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-28 17:14 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-28 17:14 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-28 18:25 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-28 18:25 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-28 19:04 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-28 19:04 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-29 0:33 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-29 0:33 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-29 2:06 ` Peter Stuge
2010-03-29 2:21 ` Gene Heskett
2010-03-29 2:43 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-29 7:44 ` Stefano Brivio
2010-03-29 8:00 ` David Woodhouse
2010-03-29 12:39 ` Gene Heskett
2010-03-30 22:21 ` Peter Stuge
2010-03-30 22:34 ` Gene Heskett
2010-03-24 1:25 ` Ehud Gavron
2010-03-23 8:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-03-23 11:43 ` Michael Buesch
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