[pve-devel] MAC address generation

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Fri Jul 8 12:33:22 CEST 2016


> Am 07.07.2016 um 17:26 schrieb Andreas Steinel <a.steinel at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I currently only have one big 3.4 install (>150 VMs), on which I compared
> the generated MACs and found out that they are completely random. Are there
> plans or probably is there already an implementation to generate only from
> a specific region? I did not found any changes in the roadmap.
> 
> In KVM/Qemu there is standard to use a prefix of 52:54:00, which was
> present in Proxmox some years ago.

While we are at it: are generated MAC addresses ensured to be unique across a cluster?


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