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Subject: Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:31:45 -0700
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On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:20 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote:
> 
> > > It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the
> > > "serial number", or would it be better to randomize all 6 octants?
> > 
> > I think it doesn't really matter.
> 
> It might be a good idea to set the LAA bit...?

And clear the mcast bit :)

johannes