From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
Cc: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org,
bloat-devel <bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: pure routing.... generating a sane mac addr on the wndr3700 in cerowrt?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:28:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623162849.290c552b@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7iei2kupd4.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:58:31 +0200
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> > I figure it should come from the second wireless interface, get the
> > local bit defined, and go to the top of the allowable range that the
> > wireless interface pulls from to generate it's SSIDs
>
> Nah. Just pull 6 bytes from /dev/random, set the local bit, and unset
> the group bit.
There is nice random_ether_addr in kernel to meet your needs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-19 15:14 Dave Taht
2011-06-23 22:58 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2011-06-23 23:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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