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Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox

Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox

Posted Dec 6, 2012 12:36 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
In reply to: Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox by smoogen
Parent article: Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox

Well, there surely are vendors that use addresses that they should not. According to [1], following ones are using locally administered address (& 0x020000). Also, note the "not registered" ones.

020406	BBN				internal usage (not registered)
020701	Interlan [now Racal-InterLAN]	DEC (UNIBUS or QBUS), Apollo, Cisco
020701	Racal-Datacom
026060	3Com
026086	Satelcom MegaPac (UK)
02608C	3Com				IBM PC; Imagen; Valid; Cisco; Macintosh
02A0C9	Intel
02AA3C	Olivetti
02CF1F	CMC				Masscomp; Silicon Graphics; Prime EXL
02E03B	Prominet Corporation		Gigabit Ethernet Switch
02E6D3	BTI (Bus-Tech, Inc.)		IBM Mainframes
2E2E2E	LAA (Locally Administered Address) for Meditech Systems
475443	GTC (Not registered!)		(This number is a multicast!)
525400	Realtek (UpTech? also reported)
52544C	Novell 2000
5254AB	REALTEK (a Realtek 8029 based PCI Card)
565857	Aculab plc			audio bridges
AA0000	DEC				obsolete
AA0001	DEC				obsolete
AA0002	DEC				obsolete
AA0003	DEC				Global physical address for some DEC machines
AA0004	DEC				Local logical address for DECNET systems
E20C0F	Kingston Technologies

[1] http://www.cavebear.com/archive/cavebear/Ethernet/vendor.html


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