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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "richardvoigt@gmail.com" <richardvoigt@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Fwd: What is the lowest valid MAC address that can be assigned to a NIC/bridge?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:22:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100308232257.2e5aa253@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e59e6971003081403saf30ca4od0e25757f099d889@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:03:15 -0600
"richardvoigt@gmail.com" <richardvoigt@gmail.com> wrote:

> The "lowest valid MAC address" is assuredly not unique to the host,
> which I would think rather defeats the purpose of using it as an
> address.

Agreed. I would choose one of the existing interfaces and set
that value explicitly.


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      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09  7:22 UTC|newest]

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2010-03-08 21:32   ` [Bridge] Fwd: What is the lowest valid MAC address that can be assigned to a NIC/bridge? Chandrashekarappa
2010-03-08 22:03     ` richardvoigt
2010-03-09  7:22       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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