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From: Martin C. Atkins <martin_ml@par...>
Subject: unique MAC address allocation?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:04:22 +0530

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:20:51 -0700 Michael Zappe <zapman@zap...> wrote:
> DECnet actually had a deterministic algorithm for assigning MAC
> addresses.  You had an area number that was 6 bits, and a 10 bit node
> number.  Then you appended this to AA:00:04:00 to get the MAC address. 
> Multiple interfaces on the same machine all used the same MAC.  

Anyone know how vmware allocates its MAC addresses? They appear to
own a OUI, but what about the other bits?

Martin

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