Subject: Re: manually setting MAC address
To: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@snew.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/29/2002 20:51:08
> 
> What is it you are after?  Why would you need to change MAC addresses?
> (the ONLY time I've ever needed it was with an HA/Failover situation).

In order to run decnet???
Requires locally administered addresses.  IIRC top 14 bits (after
multicast/unicast and locally/globally administerd) are the network
and bottom 32 the machine number.

	David

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