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vzethdev MAC-addresses [message #5314]

Thu, 17 August 2006 15:17

masm
Messages: 7
Registered: July 2006
Location: Finland

Junior Member

http://wiki.openvz.org/Virtual_Ethernet_device says:

> Note: Use random MAC addresses. Do not use MAC addresses of
> real eth devices, beacuse this can lead to collisions.

Assigning totally random MAC-addresses for VEs doesn't sound like a good
idea to me. XenSource has allocated MAC-address range 00:16:3E for use
in Xen-domains and VMWare has ranges 00:05:69, 00:0c:29 and 00:50:56.
XenSource's and VMWare's approach sounds better to me.

Is the range 00:18:51 assigned to SWSoft meant for use in OpenVZ VEs or
is there some other method for generating MAC-addresses for VEs?

BR,

Mika

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