On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:30:34PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Andrew Lunn > > Sent: 16 October 2017 17:10 > ... > > So, received Pause frames never leave the MAC. They don't get bridged, > > nor do they get passed up for host processing. They are purely point > > to point between two MAC peers. The destination is unambiguous. It is > > simple the other MAC peer. The destination address makes it clear it > > is a pause frame, the the source address seems to be unneeded. > > > > In this context, a random MAC addresses are safe. > > Is there any reason why a fixed value (say 00:00:00:00:00:00) > can't be used?
I was going to suggest 42:42:42:42:42:42 :-) Andrew
