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if_re: generate an address if there is none in the EEPROM
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Authored by evgeni_debian.org on Mar 8 2022, 8:20 PM.
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Summary

There exists hardware that has no ethernet address burned into the EEPROM. Loading if_re on such a HW brings the device up with '00:00:00:00:00:00' as the address, and that doesn't get you too far in a real network.

Other drivers use ether_gen_addr(9) in such cases, to generate an address, and so should if_re.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262406

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