netdev - Re: What makes a good fake MAC address?

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:52 -0700
From:	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Mark Smith <ipng@...06e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What makes a good fake MAC address?

On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:38:10 -0700
>
> > > You need a from address for the bridge to be able to populate its
> > > forwarding table. If remote end is always same, just get some random
> > > address at start of tunnel and reuse it.
> >
> > Nope, the remote end will change as you move around from base station
> > to base station :(
>
> Then don't bridge.

heh :) I'll give a try to just try an address from random_ether_addr(), 
it might work

Thanks!

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Inaky
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