[U-Boot-Users] eth interface (motfec) is not woring with u-boot1.1.3

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 21 22:18:21 CEST 2008


In message <AA28F077645B324881335614E4F7C4284A49AA at win-ex01.bench.com> you wrote:
> 
> > And of course even 00:11:22:33:44:55 is not a legal MAC address and
> > MUST NOT BE USED. Please see the FAQ.
> 
> Actually, 00:11:22:33:44:55 is a perfectly legal (universally
> administered) MAC address:

You are of course right - I was too terse. Thanks for adding the
missing details.

> No doubt this is what you were referring to when you said
> "00:11:22:33:44:55 is not a legal MAC address".  A better,
> easy to remember locally administered MAC address would be
> 02:03:04:05:06:07.

ACK - or use tools/genethaddr to generate a random locally
administered MAC address.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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