Re: [Xen-users] Re: 2 NIC HVM's not working properly.

[Errol Neal <eneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Martin Leben <martin2006@xxxxxxxx>:


> Hi!
>
> Sadique's advice to use 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx is correct, but the reason
> that "01:16:3e:4c:69:28" doesn't work is because it is a broadcast
> address. Nothing else.
>
> mac=01:16:3e:4c:69:28
> -----^---------------
> A broadcast address is specified by setting the least significant bit
> in the most significant byte is set to 1. See
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>.
>
> (And by the way, you can pick any MAC address that begins with "x2",
> "x6", "xA" or "xE". They are so called "locally administered addresses"
> and their first byte is binary "xxxxxx10".)
>
> Best regards,
> /Martin Leben
Thanks for that bit of information. I did not know this.

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