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Re: [Xen-users] Connect vif to vif with a bridge. MAC failure.

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Connect vif to vif with a bridge. MAC failure.
From: James Bulpin <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:23:20 +0100
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Mac adresses staring with the first two or three bits set are something
special (broadcast,multicast ... )

More specifically - the low order bit of the first (high order) octet...

Please let you mac Address start with 00: or at least 0x: and try again.

... so 0x: is only safe if x is in {0, 2, 4, 6, 8, A, C, E}.

A generally safe format is yx:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy where y is any digit (0-F) and x is in {2, 6, A, E} (these are "locally assigned" address rather than "universal" addresses allocated to hardware vendors).

James


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