I’m always amazed how what starts as someone asking a simple question turns into a epiphany / #learningOpportunity for me.
@jamie asked a question about old #Sun hardware / #Solaris.
And the question got me to thinking, refreshing myself on MAC addresses, and looking at registered OUIs.
It turns out that the lower nibble of the first byte of a MAC address is far, Far, FAR more likely to be a “0”, “8”, “4”, or “C” than any of the 12 other possible hexadecimal letters.
The OUI list that I’m looking at has this breakdown:
0 18219 occurrences
8 5752
4 5630
C 5557
2 13
A 5
1 2
The rest aren’t used.
https://boothcomputing.social/@jamie/113643239346652387