Recommended values for system MAC and active gateway VMAC
It is highly recommended to use unicast MAC Address when assigning system-mac or active-gateway virtual MAC address. There are four ranges reserved for private use of unicast. The values are:
x2-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
x6-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
xA-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
xE-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
x can be any hexadecimal value.
| Function | System-mac | Active gateway Virtual MAC |
|---|---|---|
| Access | 02:00:00:00:XX:00 | 12:00:00:00:XX:0Y |
| Aggregation | 02:01:00:00:XX:00 | 12:01:00:00:XX:0Y |
| Core | 02:02:00:00:XX:00 | 12:02:00:00:XX:0Y |
In the above table, XX represents the unique cluster ID in the function and Y represents the virtual MAC ID (0 to F).
NOTE: Do not use multicast and broadcast MAC address as system-mac address.