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On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 10:03 +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> Hmm, probably didn't make my point all that clear. IOW, anything that
> can contribute to avoiding duplicate mac addresses is worth it in my
> opinion, when compared to the time (usually hours) involved in
> troubleshooting duplicate mac addresses.

Avoiding an initial octet of "02", which is partially
assigned to 3Com and others, might be useful.

Not drawing from entropy I think useful, but it's debatable.