From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in random_ether_addr
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 17:28:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305332905.8149.705.camel@tardy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110513171729.247b126e@nehalam>
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 17:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> There are some addresses in the assigned vendor block that don't obey
> the locally assigned convention. These should be avoided by random_ether_addr
> assignment.
How "recent" are these violations? Is there really a non-trivial chance
of colliding? Much more than two or more stations in the same broadcast
domain randomly picking the same random MAC anyway?
At one level, avoiding using those OUIs seems to be a tacit approval of
the violations.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-14 0:17 [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in random_ether_addr Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-14 0:28 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2011-05-14 0:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-14 0:44 ` Rick Jones
2011-05-14 1:00 ` Rick Jones
2011-05-14 6:28 ` Bill Fink
2011-05-16 14:29 ` Rick Jones
2011-05-15 19:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-15 20:20 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-15 21:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 15:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-20 19:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
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