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Author xdegaye
Recipients Ivan.Pozdeev, barry, serhiy.storchaka, xdegaye
Date 2017-12-12.10:21:25
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> I'm not sure that 000000000000 is better than a random address.

I agree, getnode() when obtained from a MAC address should not return 0.

RFC 4122 states (emphasis on 'uniqueness' is mine):

This document specifies three algorithms to generate UUIDs: the
      first leverages the unique values of 802 MAC addresses to
      guarantee *uniqueness*, ...
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