[Openstack] Use of MAC addresses in Openstack VMs

Jason Kölker jason at koelker.net
Tue Oct 23 01:51:06 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 08:43 +0800, Shake Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > # Base MAC address. The first 3 octets will remain unchanged. If the
> > # 4h octet is not 00, it will also used. The others will be
> > # randomly generated.
> > # 3 octet
> > # base_mac = fa:16:3e:00:00:00
> > # 4 octet
> > # base_mac = fa:16:3e:4f:00:00
> >
> 
> as my know, the  fa:16:3e would on behalf of a company.

0xfa has the Locally Administrated bit set. The IEEE won't allocate OUIs
with this bit set.

Happy Hacking!

7-11





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