Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox
Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox
Posted Dec 7, 2012 15:58 UTC (Fri) by shane (subscriber, #3335)In reply to: Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox by jreiser
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I have an Android phone I ordered from China that arrived a couple weeks ago which has a MAC address not present in the IEEE database, so it is likely that it can collide with some properly-registered device at some point in the future.
I checked here:
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt
The MAC address starts with d2:a1:42, which is not present.
Posted Dec 7, 2012 16:48 UTC (Fri)
by TomH (subscriber, #56149)
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Picking a MAC address for a FreedomBox
That address has the "locally administered" bit set so at least they've done that right and aren't trampling on any address that will ever be assigned to somebody else.