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Authored by araujo on Sep 16 2016, 4:59 AM.
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I forgot to address lidl@ suggestion on review D7615.

lidl@
"""
I think this should really be clearing the lowest bit of the first octet to clean the multicast bit, and then setting on the second lowest bit of the first octet, to indicate that this is a locally administered MAC address.
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araujo retitled this revision from to Indicate that this is a locally administered MAC address..
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With or without the comment change, the code change looks OK to me.

sbin/ifconfig/af_link.c
99 ↗(On Diff #20379)

Probably should change this comment so it reads:

"Non-multicast and claim it is locally administered."

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 16 2016, 5:08 AM
araujo edited edge metadata.

Rephrase the comment to reflect the locally administered part.

Thanks lidl@

This revision now requires review to proceed.Sep 16 2016, 5:18 AM
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 16 2016, 5:33 AM

@lidl I'm in a business trip, if you don't mind, can you commit it?

Best,

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