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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Unique MAC address without using a flash memory and without prompting the user?

Dear Sirs, I am facing a little challenge with MAC addresses here. The default way of assigning a MAC address is by reading it from flash memory. Below is an example (from nios2eds/examples/s...
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13 years ago

If you have a source of random numbers use 46bits of randomness to generate a 'locally administered' MAC address.

(Or maybe just 24bits of randomness and 22bits of id).