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Originally Posted by DNSB
For what it may be worth, a compliant randomized MAC address will have the first bit set to 0 (group/local) and the second bit set to 1 (locally administered) in the first octet. Looking at this in hex, the permitted values for the 2nd character in first octet of the MAC address will be 2 (0010), 6 (0110), A (1010) and E (1110) using most significant to least significant for the bits.
So a randomized MAC address will start with x2:, x6:, xA: or xE;.
Microsoft for some reason insists the first character can't be a 0 but iOS and Android both allow that.
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Thanks for that detail. That explains why I can't set my Windows box to match the preexisting MAC address of my Kobo, and as mentioned the unjailbroken Apple devices can only use random MAC address, not manually specified MAC addresses.
So I'm back to Plan A which is trying to have a persistent manually set MAC address on my Kobo. Does anyone understand the network interface workflow well enough to have an idea about where to insert a script that would set the MAC address every time the interface is turned on?