Re: [Xen-users] Connect vif to vif with a bridge. MAC failure.

[James Bulpin <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Mac adresses staring with the first two or three bits set are something
> special (broadcast,multicast ... )
More specifically - the low order bit of the first (high order) octet...

> Please let you mac Address start with 00: or at least 0x: and try again.
... so 0x: is only safe if x is in {0, 2, 4, 6, 8, A, C, E}.

A generally safe format is yx:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy where y is any digit (0-F) 
and x is in {2, 6, A, E} (these are "locally assigned" address rather 
than "universal" addresses allocated to hardware vendors).
James


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