DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNED MAC ADDRESSES FOR DEVICES IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM
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Dec 26, 2013
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Jun 21, 2012
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Jun 21, 2012
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A method for assigning Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to devices of a computing system includes: for each of a plurality of devices of the computing system, determining particular information regarding that device during a boot process for that device, and dynamically generating a MAC address for each device that indicates the determined particular information regarding that device. The particular information regarding each device may include, for example, information regarding the location of the device in the system (e.g., slot information), device type information, device number information, etc.
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