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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2014 16:30:32 -0400
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Allowing CARP to use arbitrary OUI prefix and allocating block from FreeBSD's OUI space assignment for that
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In-Reply-To: <20140508200404.GA50446@glebius.int.ru>
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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=



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