From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:54:57 +0100 From: Derek Fawcus To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation? Message-ID: <20050331155456.A22939@mrwint.cisco.com> References: <424AE928.6000501@zappe.us> <20050331005435.G22455@mrwint.cisco.com> <424B4263.60804@zappe.us> <20050331110422.1e2041d5@agni> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20050331110422.1e2041d5@agni>; from martin_ml@parvat.com on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:04:22AM +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2f215130-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:04:22AM +0530, Martin C. Atkins wrote: > 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? I seem to recall they document it somewhere. In their help pages or online 'Knowledge Base'? DF