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RE: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved

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Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved
From: "James Harper" <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:02:30 +1000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved
I think that if the lsb in the first byte of a mac address is '1' then
the mac address is a broadcast address which would explain why you were
getting errors. There should be an rfc or something somewhere which
explains this.

James

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved
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> ok, discovered the problem. :) Aprantly the mac addrs I was using gets
> spit back as a bad mac by the kernel. 8-/ I spose I'll have to come up
> with a new config scheme. *sigh*
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