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From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:30 +0200

> In such machines, typically the mac address is stored in bootloader's
> configuration area in NOR/NAND flash.

That's a perfectly fine solution as well.

Anything that specifies a unique MAC address somewhere on
the board is OK.

It's this "generate a random MAC address every bootup" that
I am totally against.  A situation where there is no permanent
MAC address stored anywhere.