[Austin]

By the way, for anyone who finds this in the future and wonders why certain random MAC addresses they try result in “invalid address”: the least-significant bit of the first byte of the address must not be a 1.

For example: E9:D3:F5:DD:F5:19 is invalid because the first byte is 11101001, so the LSB is a 1. But E8:D3:F5:DD:F5:19 is valid because the first byte is 11101000, so the LSB is a 0.

Useful to know.

[Austin]

Thank you, Carlos! I was distracted by the message about the clock and didn’t notice the one about the invalid MAC address.

I set a random MAC and DHCP worked as expected. Thanks again. I’ll keep an eye out for the “not idle at entry” errors also.

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