> > Yup, that's what the FAQ said, too, but the chip in my (older) IPC
> > only has the barcode and not the three bytes. I guess I'll be
> > making mine up as well. That's okay, my LAN is local to the office
> > only.
>
> The Ethernet (MAC) address has to be unique in the networks to which the
> machine is connected, that's all. An easy way to guarantee that is to make
> each card's address unique worldwide, but that is really way overkill.
You should be able to use the prefix someone posted here, and then use
the machine's IP address for the last remaining 4 bytes.
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