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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:47:58 -0600 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) |
Paul Brook wrote:
+ if (strstr(p, "macrandom")) {I'm not convinced this is a useful feature.We already allow the user to specify a mac address, so this feature can be trivially implemented (and better supported) by a management app or simple shell script.In addition to the issues other people have raised, there's no validation that the random value is actually a valid mac address, and no conflict resolution to avoid duplicate addresses when multiple NICs are present.
I agree. It gives a false sense of security. Regards, Anthony Liguori
Paul
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