Quoting Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:32:52PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:Nope, it doesn't (or better: they don't persist). I'll borrow some code to create a random mac id from tap(4).Hmm, the tap(4) strategy does not work very well (uptime too short and deterministic) - I cam up with the evil hack below.
Cool.
A couple minor nits:
- s/u_int8_t/uint8_t/
- s/ui, 3/ui + 1, 3/ - otherwise you're not using the last octet on
big endian and all borked machines on the same /24 subnet get the same
mac, no?
- Printing something out to the user letting them know what's going on
may be a good idea.
- To the repositorium!
Steve