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Subject: Re: Allowing CARP to use arbitrary OUI prefix and allocating block
 from FreeBSD's OUI space assignment for that
From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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On May 8, 2014, at 16:04 , Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>  Eygene,=20
>=20
>=20
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:10:48PM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> E>  - I'll do a patch for carp(4) that will allow it to use =
configurable
> E>    OUI from a sysctl knob (first 5 bytes of OUI);
>=20
> Please no sysctl knobs. This should be configurable via ifconfig(8)
> per vhid.
>=20

Agree, please do this via ifconfig.

> P.S. Sorry for being silent on all legal and administrative questions.
>=20

Whereas I don=92t have to be silen on this.  Several of us are in =
discussions
about how to address the OUI allocation issue.  Hopefully we=92ll have =
something
soon.

Best,
George=