Olaf Meeuwissen wrote on 9/4/20 9:48 pm: > Hi, > > Ralph Ronnquist via Dng writes: > >> [...] >> btw, the MAC address choice has some rules apart from needing to be different >> from any other MAC address your networking will get to know of. My rule of >> thumb is to start with 04, end with 2, and fill the middle "randomly", but >> keep >> the same MAC address allocated for its individual guest system, which I also >> keep documented in /home/share/dhcphosts. > > If you pick MAC addresses for your VMs, just make sure they are locally > administered ones. See > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Universal_vs._local > > These have the second least significant bit of the first byte set to > one, so starting with 04 is NG. First byte values matching 0x#2, 0x#3, > 0x#6, 0x#7, 0x#a, 0x#b, 0x#e and 0x#f, where # stands for an arbitrary > hexdigit, are fine.
.. any day without learning something is a lost day. :) Obviously I need to polish my thumb. thanks, Ralph.
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