installation: add note about unsupported locally administered MAC addresses #1584
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installation: add note about unsupported locally administered MAC addresses (backport #1584)
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Change Summary
When installing VyOS ensure that the MAC address selected for your NICs is not a locally administered MAC address. Locally administered addresses are distinguished from universally administered addresses by setting (assigning the value of 1 to) the second-least-significant bit of the first octet of the address:
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