MAC address generator script

[Bill Davidsen]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote:
>> I just can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S
>>
>> Has anyone has one?
> 
> There's one in the cobbler source code (which was pulled from xen).
> Something like this perhaps:
> 
For my dime python readability falls somewhere between lisp and apl, but thanks, 
this may be useful for testing when multiple VMs are needed to generate load.

> $ cat /tmp/genmac.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import random
> 
> def generate_random_mac():
>     """
>     Generate a random MAC address.
>     from xend/server/netif.py
>     Generate a random MAC address.
>     Uses OUI 00-16-3E, allocated to
>     Xensource, Inc.  Last 3 fields are random.
>     return: MAC address string
>     """
>     mac = [ 0x00, 0x16, 0x3e,
>         random.randint(0x00, 0x7f),
>         random.randint(0x00, 0xff),
>         random.randint(0x00, 0xff) ]
>     mac = ':'.join(map(lambda x: "%02x" % x, mac))
> 
>     return mac
> 
> print generate_random_mac()
> 
> 


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