This will generate a multicast MAC 50% of the time, which will usually work, but can theoretically cause problems if there's a multicast-aware Ethernet bridge i

This will generate a multicast MAC 50% of the time, which will usually work, but can theoretically cause problems if there's a multicast-aware Ethernet bridge in your path. Ideally, the LSB of the first octet should be fixed to 0 to indicate a unicast address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Unicast_vs._multicast_(I/G_bit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Unicast_vs._multic...