From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:04:22 +0530 From: "Martin C. Atkins" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation? Message-Id: <20050331110422.1e2041d5@agni> In-Reply-To: <424B4263.60804@zappe.us> References: <424AE928.6000501@zappe.us> <20050331005435.G22455@mrwint.cisco.com> <424B4263.60804@zappe.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f186840-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:20:51 -0700 Michael Zappe wrote: > DECnet actually had a deterministic algorithm for assigning MAC > addresses. You had an area number that was 6 bits, and a 10 bit node > number. Then you appended this to AA:00:04:00 to get the MAC address. > Multiple interfaces on the same machine all used the same MAC. Anyone know how vmware allocates its MAC addresses? They appear to own a OUI, but what about the other bits? Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin_ml@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}