On Monday 28 July 2008 15:56:37 Luis Carlos Cobo wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:44 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Well, I think that really is pretty weird and it is confusing to the > > user to see that pseudo random MAC that changes suddenly when the device is > > initialized. For the human user (so everybody but me), it would be better > > to have the MAC all-zeros until the firmware loaded. So it would be obvious > > that the MAC is not set, yet. I think userspace > > The problem is that all-zeroes is actually a valid mac address, owned by > Xerox (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt) Not that it will > probably cause us any problem, but a multicast address is afaik an > invalid mac for a device. Should we go for 01:allzeros? If that's really a problem, yes. 01:00:00:00:00:00 is still better than a pseudo random MAC, IMO. It's immediately obvious to the user that the MAC currently is not set. -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
