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• assignment range static mac addresses

  Anyone know or knows where I can find what the mac address range is responsible for functions static mac end user for virtual machines?  There is a specific, cited in the 4.x documentation Beach, but the docs 5.x just say do not walk on the beaches of use reserved for vCenter Server, host network adapters physical, virtual cards, but says not what is Beach, reserved or allowed is, so I don't know what to avoid.  I opened a support ticket and asked the same question and I was told there is no specific void range defined for static assignment, and I have to look in my environment to see what was automatically generated for what could not be attributed.  Of course, this does not solve the potential problem of an address that I choose to be automatically generated by vcenter for a future new virtual machine.

  Also, does anyone know what virtual machine operations can cause the mac to change address?  I'm trying to determine whether it is necessary to assign a static address to a virtual machine that has a license associated with it, so I need to know what would be the probability of this change.  Support could not answer this question.

  Thanks to all in advance.

  Have you checked the http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-networking-guide.pdf 148 pages

  Documentation - once the MAC address is generated, it does not change unless the virtual machine MAC address conflicts

  with that of another virtual machine saved. The MAC address is stored in the virtual machine configuration file.

• Same range of MAC addresses with vSphere 2 Virtual Center

  Hello, we have two virtual center of vSphere that create VM with the same MAC address range,

  00:56:B0:00:00... the other a virtual center... so be very carefully to not

  VM in duplicate with the same mac address...

  Could I change attribution AUTOMATIC of the beach of one of our virtual centres?

  Thank you very much

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  Francisco Javier Morales Lopez of Gamarra

  VMware VCP | LPI - CCNA

  Edited all the line caps object according to the rules of the forum, AWo.

  If you have two vCenter servers to ensure that they have different instance ID because they are used to generate MAC and UUID for VM addresses...

  This is explained in this KB here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024025

  / Rubeck

• Problems with the MAC address duplicate when creating new jobs virtual

  We use the MAC addresses of vWorkspace management. This means that we have the option set as an attachment with the basic MAC address pic01. This has worked well so far. We now extend our VDI environment with the new Virtual Machines in a new group. But now, we got the question if we create a new desktop computers, the broker for connections will distribute double MAC addresses (see the pic02 attachment). And as you know it will end in a messy DHCP and TCP/IP. Even if we put the basic MAC address to a new range, the broker for connections always distributes the old MAC address range. We restart the broker for connections rather than on the time and the problem is still the same!

  Does anyone have ideas or solutions to this problem?

  If you need additional information just let me know.

  Versions:

  vWorkspace Broker for 7.6.305.845 connections

  Client tools PN 7.6.0.820 (former VM) or 7.6.0.845 (new VM)

  THX and greetings

  Thomas

  Additional accessories:

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  Hello

  Address management Mac is for groups of clouds. With groups of clouds, the machines get deleted/re-created very often so we need mac address management to allow the mac address be reused after a certain period of time.

  With traditional groups, the machines are kept for long periods of time if you don't use mac addresses that you will get the number you have described management.

  Thank you, Andrew.

• VM mac address

  I migrated about 40 virtual machines from a virtual centre to the new virtual centre along the esxi host.

  now, I'm having a problem of duplicate MAC address. a few times my old vcenter takes a MAC address of a new vcenter.

  How this can happen and how to stop it.

  Another way rather than change the MAC address of the virtual machines attached with my new virtual centre.

  Thank you

  Hello

  When using multiple vCenter make servers you define unique ID on each vCenter. In this way, they don't use the same MAC address range.

  This will help only for VMS newly created however. I'm afraid you must change the Mac of your existing virtual machines or delete their network cards and create new ones.

  Read more:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1024025

  Considerations when migrating VMS between vCenter servers | virtuallyGhetto

• The first byte of the MAC address cannot be bit odd?

  Hello

  I get the error message when you try to enter a specific MAC address starting with 01:18 to use in a virtual map.

  No reason for this restriction? Some way around it (manually edit the vmx doesn't...)?

  Thank you

  As already mentioned the Woody, the VMware MAC address range is limited. This isn't a matter of marketing, but based on recorded officially beaches of MAC addresses (see http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt) the alternative registered MAC addresses - it is e.g. XenServer use the use "administered locally' MAC addresses (bit 2 of the most significant byte to 1 game) is explained this as well as the reason for the mistake with a first odd byte (unicast and multicast) MAC addresses in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

  André

• MAC address of the system of comments in Bridge mode

  Real quick question that I could not an idea says the response of previous forum posts.

  I have a piece of software that allowed off the coast of the MAC to the NETWORK card it uses.  We are ready to move to a virtualized environment, but you need to know to apply for a new license or not.  Our server has 4 GigE ports so it's not a lack of ports bridge-able.  So, if we have configured our guest with two NIC bridged interfaces, the NIC guest will have a MAC VMWare virtual or he will inherit the host NIC MAC?

  Hello

  the answer is Yes.

  Who manages the mac address of comments is usually vmware (virtualization software). If you want to use a mac outside the specific vmware mac address ranges (static or dynamic), then you should check the first link on my previous post.

  If the virtual machine running the software with license always must be run on a computer invited vmware, I recommend you to buy a new license and by setting a static of vmware mac address after the second link in my post above. In this case who runs the mac of comments is VMware.

  In any case if you want comments holds his old mac address, then the path follows the first link on my post above.

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

  Please consider providing any useful answer. Thank you!! - Por favor considered premiar las useful responses. ¡¡MUCHAS gracias!

  Virtually noob blog

• Wireless devices shows the MAC address for 1 device that does not have an IP address

  I am tracking down each device connected to my router nighthawk and I identified everyone except this. There is a device of Wirelsss appears when I connect to the router that does NOT have an IP address but it has a MAC address. An interesting point is that the router device itself has a number of MAC that is not anywhere in the list of devices. Any ideas what this could be? I have an Extneder range wireless attached Nighthawk also but I already idenfified his IP address and Mac address.

  How a device could have a mac address, but not IP address?

  Why the address of the router device do not show in the list of anywhere?

  Try to turn off the Extender and see if that will fill again.

• IPad wi - fi MAC address not "MAC address" according to the Linksys router

  WRT55AG 2.0:

  Failed to save the MAC address of my new iPad wi - fi MAC filtering table.  Upgrade to the latest firmware, but still does not work.  When I try to record, I get a pop-up that says: "not a MAC Address.

  If I disable the MAC filtering, the iPad can be accessed via the router and the router shows the good MAC iPad in the customer table wireless, but I much perfer to have enabled MAC filtering.

  1. the MAC address filter is not a problem. It's a joke. As I have said before: the MAC addresses are always transferred not encrypted. If someone tries to penetrate your WPA2 protected wireless network, it is necessary to capture a lot of wireless traffic to crack the password. By the time it is cracked (who is supposed to be very difficult and time consuming if the password is good) the hacker knows all the MAC addresses that are accepted for your wireless network.

  2 No. more isn't always better. Are three locks on your door better than two? Ten are better than two? Why have you not 10 locks on your door? The longer the better? It's more, but the impact on you is much more important than the impact on an attacker. WPA2 with a strong password is like putting a stone wall think 100feet for protection. It is very high and very difficult to 'jump '. Filtering of MAC addresses is like putting another small 5 inch thin barrier in front of the wall. The longer the better? Anyone that can fly over the wall will easily get over the fence. The greatest effect of the fence, it's that you will sometimes fall on it because you have forgotten. Compared to WPA2 security with a password strong MAC filter is simply not useful.

  3. the same for the SSID broadcast. Leave it active. The SSID is always transferred unencrypted over the affair with the access point. Any malicious person can easily find your SSID. In addition, it is easy to force a device associated to re-associate. With the right software, it takes a few seconds to learn the SSID. And even with SSID broadcast disabled, him access point always sends a signal of ELT. This means that the existence of your access point is immediately visible. Just the SSID is not transmitted with the tag.

  4. the disabled SSID broadcast technically breaks the wireless standard. Problems with wireless clients are common.

  5. the hidden SSID will be also the batteries in your wireless devices: wireless device always must actively try to connect from the hidden SSID. There is no other way to find out whether there is in the range. If you have ten networks hidden in the list of your wireless device wireless networks will try these ten networks frequently to see if one of these is in the range. In other words, it will try to connect to the hidden SSID and see if anything responds. If you do not connect to any hidden SSID (i.e. all the wireless networks in your list are broadcast) then it is very easy to find out whether a network is within reach: the device has to do is passively listen to the signals from the tags. There is no need to send anything until a known SSID is within reach. Then only the wireless device will try to associate with the SSID.

  So: don't hide your own SSID. And stay away from the other SSID hidden. Do not associate those or don't forget to remove from the list of preferred networks prior to departure. This will allow you to save a lot of battery power...

  To summarize: your neighbor who doesn't know computers would have a problem with broadcast SSID disabled or filtering of MAC addresses. But your neighbour do not know how to use a software to crack a wireless anyway. Anyone who is sophisticated enough to try a good attack on a protected network WPA2 will have no problem with the SSID broadcast or filtering of MAC addresses.

  And if it is an automated attack the SSID and MAC address is detected automatically. The broadcast SSID and MAC address filters are issues for you. They are not problems for any aggressor.

• BEFSR81 v3 MAC address filtering

  I have a simple network configuration with wired computers connected to the router and the router connected to the modem.

  My goal is to associate the IPs assigned to MACs. So if I have 4 (A, B, C, D) computers connected to the router, it assigned a specific IP address. If someone disconnected a computer to replace it with their own, the router would recognize the MAC change and could not allow the connection.

  I know that the router can filter certain IP or Mac addresses from the internet, but some evil doer who simply unplug the computer to plug its own would still have access to the local network. That and I have no way of knowing what would MAC the author.

  So far, I have configured my computer to request a static IP (192.168.1.2-5) and the DHCP Server give the rest (6 to 254). Then the IP filter is on the DHCP range to block those from the internet.

  But as I said, I need these completely blocked IPs. Also. If a user connects to a computer windows laptop and guess the static IP address, then the router fortunately would give him access to everything...

  Sorry, I know it's confusing. Bottom line is I have to let only specific Mac to connect to the network. Or SOME form of protection for the cable networks... Super sticky ethernet cables is not an option, although it would solve the problem.

  nicfortin1342 wrote:

  My goal is to associate the IPs assigned to MACs. So if I have 4 (A, B, C, D) computers connected to the router, it assigned a specific IP address. If someone disconnected a computer to replace it with their own, the router would recognize the MAC change and could not allow the connection.

  Cannot do this with the BEFSR81 and it is not a matter of how it is recent - the firmware just does not support, does support an address IP or MAC, some of them not allowing not blocking.  I think that it has been designed as a primitive, rather than a security measure parental control.

  With DHCP servers better (like those of most of the firewall) than the BEFSR81 has, you can configure DHCP to "static maps" so that the lease of the intellectual property will be distributed based on the MAC address, and which would you allow to adjust things until only the DHCP leases to some MAC addresses issue.

  Despite this, MAC addresses can be manually changed and spoofed, such as IP addresses, so neither is really a good measure of security.

  You have to ask in the BEFSR81 firewall features, which, instead, is simply a router.

  In the grand scheme of things, because the MAC and IP addresses can be spoofed, if someone can get physical access to your network, you are pretty well watered unless the traffic is encrypted.

  Russ

• MAC address error when you use the New-VMHostNetworkAdapter cmdlet

  I try to use powercli to set up networks for a new 5.1 esxi.

  I get the error:

  The MAC address is not valid or is not in the range valid 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF

  The script I use:

  [CmdletBinding()]

  (Param

  [Parameter] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string] $FQDNHostNaam,

  [Parameter] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string] $IPManagementNetwork,

  [Parameter] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string] $SubNetMask

  )

  $VSwitch = New-VirtualSwitch - VMHost $FQDNHostNaam - name vSwitch0 - Nic vmnic2, vmnic3

  New-VMHostNetworkAdapter - vmhost $FQDNHostNaam - Portgroup Management Network - VirtualSwitch $VSwitch IP - $IPManagementNetwork - subnet $SubNetMask mask - ManagementTrafficEnabled: $true

  This creates the vSwitch, but runs into problems when calling to New-VMHostNetworkAdapter. It gives me the above error.

  Anyone?

  And did you try with go seek the portgroup first?

  $pg = get-VirtualPortgroup-name of the "network management".

  New-VMHostNetworkAdapter - vmhost $FQDNHostNaam - Portgroup $pg - VirtualSwitch $VSwitch IP - $IPManagementNetwork - subnet $SubNetMask mask - ManagementTrafficEnabled: $true

• Change MAC address

  Hi team,

  I'm quite new to VMware technology. I would be grateful for any feedback.

  I came across a situation where I found that Vsphere showed a different MAC address for physically found whats network cards. I guess this is the reason why it says vNIC.

  

  The screenshot above shows MMIC (of a Cisco UCS server) on the right of the VMware Client to the same host.

  T1) why there at - it a Variant?

  Q2) how to find the real MAC address on the Vshpere Client using GUI or CLI?

  Are you sure have the same selected host?  On the vmnic0 left and 1 are connected.  On the right, vmnic2 is showing something to watch IP ranges which suggests it is plugged.

• Efficient P2V Mac address

  When I P2V a machine which determines the effective address of the Mac OS?  It is the one that the server had originally or is it the same as the initial MAC address?

  Each VM - without worrying that they are newly created or converted - will get a new unique MAC address in MAC range reserved for VMware to avoid problems with physical systems.

  André

• Together-NetworkAdapter fails with "the Mac address is incorrect...". »

  Pretty simple command:

  $TargetNetworkMacAddress = "00:50:56:a1:00:00".

  Get-NetworkAdapter - VM $TargetVMName | where {$_.} Name - eq $TargetNetworkAdapterName} | Together-NetworkAdapter - MacAddress $TargetNetworkMacAddress - confirm: $false

  Generates the error:

  All-NIC: 19/07/2012 16:27:54 Set-NetworkAdapter MAC address is not valid or is not in him valid range 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.
  On line: 1 char: 39
  + $MyNetworkAdapter | Together-NetworkAdapter < < < <-MacAddress "00:50:56:a1:00:00."
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [game-NetworkAdapter], InvalidArgument)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Common_SharedParameterHelper_TryValidateStaticMacAddress_InvalidM
  acAddress, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.SetNetworkAdapter

  PowerCLI Version
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  VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.0 build 435427
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  Versions of the snap
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  VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI 5.0 build 575
  VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI 5.0 build 575
  License of VMware PowerCLI 5.0 build 395016
  VMWare vSphere PowerCLI 5.0 build 435427

  Any ideas on why I get this error? The Mac address appears to be in the appropriate range.

  The specified MAC address 00:50:56:a1:00:00 is not in the range valid 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF. In the specified MAC address 'a' should be 0-3.

  Best regards, Robert

• Script to set the static Mac address

  I have an Infrastructure virtual with about 200 vm with several vNIC and automatic Mac address. I need to assign static Mac for all NICs for and want to perform this operation with a powershell script and a csv input file. I have the entry csv file that looks like this: Vm, portgroup Mac Vm1 00:11:22:33 Vm1, pg1, pg2, 00:11:22:44 Vm2, pg1, 00:11:44:44 (I know the Mac above are not valid) can anyone help with the powershell code to automate the static configuration of mac?  Thanks in advance

  Hello, ITS.

  You should be able to use the following to achieve:

  ## import the info from the CSV$colNICInfo = Import-Csv c:\vmNICInfo.csv$colNICInfo | %{    $oSingleNICInfo = $_    ## get the VM, get its NetworkAdapters and for the one whose NetworkName matches that from the CSV, set its MAC address    Get-VM $oSingleNICInfo.VMName | Get-NetworkAdapter | ?{$_.NetworkName -eq $oSingleNICInfo.NetwkName} | Set-NetworkAdapter -MacAddress $oSingleNICInfo.MACAddr -Confirm:$false -WhatIf} ## end foreach-object
  

  A few things to note:

  • I left the '-WhatIf "parameter on the Set-NetworkAdapter portion, so that you can run this first (perhaps with a small sample of game in the CSV file) to check that things look like they will work.  Remove this parameter to set the MAC addresses
  • The code provides that the CSV of this format:
    MACAddr VMName, NetwkName,
    someVM, VLAN128, 00:50:56:00:00:0F
  • The cmdlet Set-NetworkAdapter requires the new MAC address in the range 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.  It's not the range likely to use, VMware only a subset.  Seems to be a limitation of the cmdlet (probably intentional).

  Message edited by mattboren: added a note about removing "-WhatIf" to actually set the MAC addresses of the network adapters