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Author barry
Recipients barry, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-11-21.20:55:00
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On Nov 21, 2017, at 15:47, Serhiy Storchaka <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> If your fix is correct (and it looks correct to me), we should fix not only the test, but, first of all, the _*_getnode functions. Perhaps they should ignore locally administered MAC addresses and continue searching better variants or fall back to other method.

I think it does make sense to ignore locally administered MACs from _getnode() and friends.  E.g. there’s no use in returning the interface for the Touch Bar bridge :)

I don’t have time right now to elaborate on that, but I’ll work on improving the PR with that change.
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