[AusNOG] Internal use MAC addresses

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Feb 24 14:21:25 EST 2013


On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, Geordie Guy wrote:

> Is there a "555" style best practice for MAC addresses?  I'm mucking around with programming electronics and
> writing Ethernet bits and pieces and while it's commonplace for me to hardcode 192.168.0/24 addresses to projects, I also need
> to code MAC addresses.  Is there an OUI equivalent of 172.16/192.168/10.?  or does nobody care because it's not relevant outside
> a layer 2 domain...

If you're making open hardware/software, you can get a range from 
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OUI

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