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What range of MAC addresses can I safely use for my virtual machines?

There are actually 4 sets of Locally Administered Address Ranges that can be used on your network without fear of conflict, assuming no one else has assigned these on your network: x2-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx x6-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx xA-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx xE-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx Replacing x with any hex value.

Why couldn’t MAC addresses be used instead of IPv4|6 for networking? [closed]

The MAC address might be unique, but there’s nothing special about the number that would indicate where it is. MAC 00-00-00-00-00-00 might be on the other side of the planet from 00-00-00-00-00-01. IP is an arbitrary numbering scheme imposed in a hierarchical fashion on a group of computers to logically distinguish them as a group … Read more