From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Fink Subject: Re: [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in random_ether_addr Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 02:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20110514022825.bcd09e14.billfink@mindspring.com> References: <20110513171729.247b126e@nehalam> <1305332905.8149.705.camel@tardy> <20110513173213.491c74a1@nehalam> <1305333898.8149.715.camel@tardy> <1305334848.8149.729.camel@tardy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: rick.jones2@hp.com Return-path: Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.66]:45953 "EHLO elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867Ab1ENG20 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 May 2011 02:28:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1305334848.8149.729.camel@tardy> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 13 May 2011, Rick Jones wrote: > > Well, then by a quick glance at > > http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt it looks like > > there are more to add... (some overlap with your list, I've not checked > > the entire thing, how the name conflicts should be resolved I've no > > idea) > > > > raj@tardy:~$ grep ^02- oui.txt > > 02-07-01 (hex) RACAL-DATACOM > > 02-1C-7C (hex) PERQ SYSTEMS CORPORATION > > 02-60-86 (hex) LOGIC REPLACEMENT TECH. LTD. > > 02-60-8C (hex) 3COM CORPORATION > > 02-70-01 (hex) RACAL-DATACOM > > 02-70-B0 (hex) M/A-COM INC. COMPANIES > > 02-70-B3 (hex) DATA RECALL LTD > > 02-9D-8E (hex) CARDIAC RECORDERS INC. > > 02-AA-3C (hex) OLIVETTI TELECOMM SPA (OLTECO) > > 02-BB-01 (hex) OCTOTHORPE CORP. > > 02-C0-8C (hex) 3COM CORPORATION > > 02-CF-1C (hex) COMMUNICATION MACHINERY CORP. > > 02-E6-D3 (hex) NIXDORF COMPUTER CORPORATION > > > > The ieee's list doesn't have any 52's though. > > It does have some A's though: > ~$ grep ^.[26AE]- oui.txt > [the aforementioned 02's] > AA-00-00 (hex) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION > AA-00-01 (hex) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION > AA-00-02 (hex) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION > AA-00-03 (hex) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION > AA-00-04 (hex) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION > > which if I've not botched my bits has the locally administered bit set. The AA addresses are used by DECNET and related protocols. -Bill