Patent ID: 7433356

Claim:
A method for creating a media access control (MAC) address for a first device, comprising: obtaining one or more identifiers; obtaining a first MAC address; creating at least a second MAC address based on the one or more identifiers and the first MAC address; and employing the second MAC address, wherein employing the second MAC address includes employing the second MAC address as an address of a hosted partition of the first device on a portion of a network; wherein creating at least a second MAC address based on the one or more identifiers and the first MAC address includes creating a second and a third MAC address based on the one or more identifiers and the first MAC address; and further comprising, while employing the second MAC address as the address of the hosted partition of the first device on the portion of the network: detecting another device using the second MAC address on the same portion of the network; employing the third MAC address as the address of the hosted partition of the first device; and updating a table entry in an Ethernet adapter used by the first device from the second MAC address to the third MAC address.