[Users] vzethdev MAC-addresses

Mika S Marjamäki mika.marjamaki at movial.fi
Thu Aug 17 11:17:17 EDT 2006


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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