1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>eth_random_addr</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs"><link rel="up" href="netdev.html#idp1097739572" title="Driver Support"><link rel="prev" href="API-is-valid-ether-addr.html" title="is_valid_ether_addr"><link rel="next" href="API-eth-broadcast-addr.html" title="eth_broadcast_addr"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">eth_random_addr</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-is-valid-ether-addr.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Driver Support</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-eth-broadcast-addr.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-eth-random-addr"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>eth_random_addr &#8212; 
2     Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">eth_random_addr </b>(</code></td><td>u8 * <var class="pdparam">addr</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098597204"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>addr</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
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6   Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) that is not multicast
7   and has the local assigned bit set.
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