MAC Addresses - How Applogic Generates Them

This is an expansion of the MAC address assignment section of the 2.x wiki article: http://wiki.3tera.net/bin/view/AppLogic29/NetConfigDetails

MAC Address Assignment

AppLogic generates MAC addresses for appliances in a predictable, computable fashion.

MAC addresses of virtual network interfaces for appliances are generated as follows: F2:M:N:a:b:c, where:

F2 is a constant, designating the MAC address as a locally administered address (so it does not overlap with any hardware NIC MAC address)
M and N are the backbone number and network number, respectively (as described above)
a same as b; allows above UID of 127. will most often see as 00
b is the Application UID * 2 converted to HEX. (ex: If the UID is 110 then, 110*2=220, converted to hex is 'DC')
c counts up for each interface (in order the interfaces are listed in [assign the variable value for comp in your book].desc) for each component (in order the subordinantes are listed in main.desc) of the Application.