Re: [uml-user] ethernet addresses

2006-11-16 Thread Jason Lunz
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:48:16AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > Half of all MAC-48 addresses are "locally administered": those with the > > second-least-significant bit of the first byte set. > > Uh? > Looking at the list of allocated OUI > (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt), I s

Re: [uml-user] ethernet addresses

2006-11-16 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Jason Lunz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:37:15AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > >>This address range is documented - look for assignment of MAC ranges >>to NIC manufacturers. This range will be documented as reserved for >>private use or something similar. > > > Half of all MAC-48 addresses ar

Re: [uml-user] ethernet addresses

2006-11-15 Thread Jason Lunz
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:37:15AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > This address range is documented - look for assignment of MAC ranges > to NIC manufacturers. This range will be documented as reserved for > private use or something similar. Half of all MAC-48 addresses are "locally administered": thos

Re: [uml-user] ethernet addresses

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:18:17PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I use UML with the tuntap virtual network driver. By default it uses > ethernet fe:fd:xx:xx:xx:xx addresses. I asked google about those > addresses with no success. > > Are these addresses allocated to anyone? Reserved for experime

[uml-user] ethernet addresses

2006-11-14 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, I use UML with the tuntap virtual network driver. By default it uses ethernet fe:fd:xx:xx:xx:xx addresses. I asked google about those addresses with no success. Are these addresses allocated to anyone? Reserved for experimental use? Reserved for private use? Is it documented somewhere? Shoul