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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2006 23:40:28 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Michael Jeung <mjeung@cisdata.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Private" MAC Addresses
Message-ID:  <20060526233953.A9690@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <BDF5FC7A-4205-4995-8B1C-B8D40260AE2E@cisdata.net>
References:  <BDF5FC7A-4205-4995-8B1C-B8D40260AE2E@cisdata.net>

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On Fri, 26 May 2006, Michael Jeung wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm interested in assigning a bunch of virtual MAC addresses on my network 
> but I want to make sure that I'm not conflicting with MAC addresses that are 
> already out there.
>
> (I've already taken a look at this nice resource: 
> http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/vendor.html)
>
> Are there any MAC address ranges which are reserved as private?  I'm talking

look at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/groupmac/tutorial.html and
check for the locally administered bit.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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