
24 Jul
2003
24 Jul
'03
10:25 p.m.
Dear Rick,
in message E19fm59-0000GX-00@c-67-164-43-44.client.comcast.net you wrote:
- The ethaddr doesn't seem to like xf:xx:xx:xx:xx
This has nothing to do with "to like" or not to like.
This has a lot to do with standards.
It is definitely a Bad Idea to use random MAC addresses.
All this has been discussed here before. More than once.
Wolfgang Denk
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