Re: [PATCH] dummy -- support hardware address

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:54:03 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Stephen, why don't you do what usbnet does?  Look at usbnet_init()
> where it goes:
> 
>       get_random_bytes (node_id, sizeof node_id);
>       node_id [0] &= 0xfe;    // clear multicast bit
>       node_id [0] |= 0x02;    // set local assignment bit (IEEE802)
> 
> I distinctly remember Alan Cox saying this was the right way
> do this and avoid conflicts with Vendor assigned IDs.

That would work better, just worried about draining the entropy pool
when I create 1000 dummies in a test script.