On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:16:13AM -0500, Patrick_Boyd@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Unfortunately, it looks like IEEE doesn't have any OID's registered for > Linux or other reserved areas > (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt). However, it does look > like they go in order... so maybe if you used an OID of 0xFFFFFF you > could at least guarantee that you didn't conflict with any company's SAS > WWNs. It's something that happens frequently enough that we should come up with a proper way of handling this. I heard a story of someone at HP taking an old computer, reading the MAC address from the motherboard, then snapping the board in half. I suppose if you're going to use a MAC address from a 10Mbit ethernet card for a SAS WWN, there's no chance of conflict, but still ... 3com might choose to do the same thing, and then we're in trouble. I don't have a good solution for WWN assignment. Even if we get a 24-bit OID assignment for 'software use' or something, how do we control the use withi the SAN to be sure we get no overlapping WWNs? -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
