Allowing CARP to use arbitrary OUI prefix and allocating block from FreeBSD's OUI space assignment for that

[George Neville-Neil]

On May 8, 2014, at 16:04 , Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>  Eygene, 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:10:48PM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> E>  - I'll do a patch for carp(4) that will allow it to use configurable
> E>    OUI from a sysctl knob (first 5 bytes of OUI);
> 
> Please no sysctl knobs. This should be configurable via ifconfig(8)
> per vhid.
> 

Agree, please do this via ifconfig.

> P.S. Sorry for being silent on all legal and administrative questions.
> 

Whereas I don’t have to be silen on this.  Several of us are in discussions
about how to address the OUI allocation issue.  Hopefully we’ll have something
soon.

Best,
George