Re: Zero MAC address

2012-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 14, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Adarsh Joshi wrote: > Thank you for the quick replies. > > I am aware of the importance of the second bit. By invalid, I was wondering > if that particular address is reserved or if it has any special meaning or > purpose. There isn't a special meaning for all-zeros

Re: Zero MAC address

2012-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Adarsh Joshi wrote: > I assigned a 00:00:00:00:00:00 MAC address to one of my interfaces on a > machine and tried to ping the peer machine. The ping did go through fine. > > I can the see the request and reply packets on the packet capture. I am > wondering if that i

RE: Zero MAC address

2012-03-14 Thread Adarsh Joshi
reebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero MAC address On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Adarsh Joshi wrote: > I assigned a 00:00:00:00:00:00 MAC address to one of my interfaces on a > machine and tried to ping the peer machine. The ping did go through fine. > > I can the see the request and reply packets