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RE: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved


  • To: <brianw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen Devel Mailing List" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "James Harper" <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:02:30 +1000
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:05:18 +0100
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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-----
> From: xen-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Wolfe
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:19
> To: Xen Devel Mailing List
> Subject: [Xen-devel] brctl troubles - solved
> 
> 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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