16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
11:50 a.m.
On 3/16/07, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
I've used DECAFBAD as part of a user-defined MAC
address (as
DECAFBAD01)---nice thing about it was---it set the correct bits in the MAC
address (single station, user defined address).
Nice one. The canonical replacement MAC address for an old Sun
workstation with a dead NVRAM (for those that forgot to write the
vendor-assigned MAC address down before the battery died ;-) is 8 20
0 c0 ff ee (the first half being one of Sun's reserved 24-bit
prefixes).
I suppose one could use a stuttered "cccoffee" as one of thse 32-bit
replacements for deadbeef, but it's tough to come up with a 2-letter
prefix when your alphabet is a-f plus i and o (though with a stretch,
you could get tricky with 2 and 5 as S and Z).
-ethan