Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment:

On Nov 21, 2017, at 15:47, Serhiy Storchaka <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> If your fix is correct (and it looks correct to me), we should fix not only 
> the test, but, first of all, the _*_getnode functions. Perhaps they should 
> ignore locally administered MAC addresses and continue searching better 
> variants or fall back to other method.

I think it does make sense to ignore locally administered MACs from _getnode() 
and friends.  E.g. there’s no use in returning the interface for the Touch Bar 
bridge :)

I don’t have time right now to elaborate on that, but I’ll work on improving 
the PR with that change.

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