28 Oct
2014
28 Oct
'14
9:08 a.m.
Hello Przemyslaw,
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:47:47 +0100, Przemyslaw Marczak p.marczak@samsung.com wrote:
Hello Suriyan Ramasami,
The MAC address is defined by IEEE standard, so we can't use magic numbers from undefined registers.
I am aware of that. In the code by Tushar Behera you will see that he does mark it - "not multicast and outside official 80211 MAC namespace".
Ok, but this is an open source code, and I assume that it should keeps some of the standards?
At least the code could and should make sure the Locally Administered flag is set in the randomly generated MAC -- that would keep the MAC standard and ensure it won't conflict with universally administered (iow, 'normal') MAC addresses.
Amicalement,
--
Albert.