Re: Certain Mac Address doesn't work in KVM virtual NICs.

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Thanks a lot for your advice!
A lot of appreciations. 

On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:33 PM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Yueyu Lin <yueyu.lin81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot. I got the point and I got the exact warning in the virtual machine indeed.
>> 
>> Besides the least significant bit should be 0 for the first byte,  should I set the second least significant bit to 1 to enforce it as local administrated instead of OUI enforced?
> 
> Anytime you change the MAC address of a physical or virtual device
> away from the (hopefully) globally unique address in the factory
> settings
> it is a good idea to set the locally administrated bit as well.
> It makes it easier when analyzing network traces to see what are from
> physical and what are from virtual devices.
> 
> So I say yes, set that bit.
> 
> 
> regards
> ronnie sahlberg

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