Re: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation?

[Artem Letko <aletko@gmail.com>]

Ethernet assumes unique MACs. Save yourself some time and look up
Ethernet II encapsulation. Isn't that the one Plan9 uses anyway?


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:00:57 +0200, fgergo@gmail.com <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was probably not precise and the question was not well thought
> through. What I wanted to ask was:
> I did override the MAC address - for some obscure reason, I can't
> remember - some 12 years ago on DOS via the packet driver interface,
> but is it the OS's responsibility to detect and possibly deal with MAC
> address collision or would the Ethernet layer take care of it?
>
> Instead of googling for "MAC address" etc., I should have searched for
> "Ethernet standard", days ago.
> The pages I needed were http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/OUI.html and
> http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html . Now I only have to
> read thorugh the standard. Probably the subject is not worth it (~1500
> pages?).
>
> The OS can take care of the problem, if the driver supports MAC
> address collision detection.
>