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RE: [Xen-devel] ARP problems in -testing?


The following will work, though has obvious limitations (256 domains):
vif = [ 'mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:%02x:XX' % vmid ]

The netback vif needs a MAC addr too, and this is picked as the frontend's MAC 
addr+1. This was probably a bad choice as people tend to pick consecutive MAC 
addrs for their domains. We should probably move the front/back bit to a mor 
esignificant bit.

Hence, the above vif= line sets vmid into the 2nd octet.

ah, cool. it makes me wonder though.

in the IP the 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x are reserved for private use?
is there such MAC address space reserved as well?

looking a bit around the web I was unable to find such guideliness.

        http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
        http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address


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