A router that I am thinking about buying can be ordered with or without a fixed MAC address. Which is better? If it depends, on what does it depend?
you can set one in openwrt, it's not a big deal.
If you have the option for a reasonable price, you want the fixed MAC. Yes, you can work around it, but it's always a kludge - but not worth your first born either.
Thank you, frollic and slh, for the quick and helpful replies.
A fixed "factory" MAC is guaranteed to be unique, so you can simply set up without worrying there may be the same MAC elsewhere in your network which would cause problems.
Those MACs do cost the factory a small amount for global registration.
Thanks, Mike.