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> But each vNIC does have a subnet-unique MAC address, right? Why not use it? Why use it at all? If it's not related to a real, physical item (and maybe you d
by regularfry 14y ago
> But each vNIC does have a subnet-unique MAC address, right? Why not use it?
Why use it at all? If it's not related to a real, physical item (and maybe you don't make any guarantees about MAC uniqueness across VM clusters), it's pointless bureaucracy.
> As long as you break the tie deterministically, I don't see the harm in picking one of the interface MACs.
Again, why would you bother to do this? If you've picked one of the NICs as "blessed", you're one hardware replacement (or network reconfiguration) from neither being blessed - so why not just assign in sequence from whatever netblock you're dealing with to start off with, and ignore the hardware?