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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dummy -- support hardware address
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:54:03 -0700
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Stephen, why don't you do what usbnet does?  Look at usbnet_init()
where it goes:

	get_random_bytes (node_id, sizeof node_id);
	node_id [0] &= 0xfe;	// clear multicast bit
	node_id [0] |= 0x02;    // set local assignment bit (IEEE802)

I distinctly remember Alan Cox saying this was the right way
do this and avoid conflicts with Vendor assigned IDs.