# MAC Addresses

#### MAC OUI

#### Reserved OUIs

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="bkmrk-addresses-usage-refe" style="height: 517px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 29px;"><th style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">Addresses</th><th style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Usage</th><th style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;">Reference</th></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-00-00 to 00-00-FF</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">Reserved</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC7042](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc7042)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-01-00 to 00-01-FF</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC5798](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc5798)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-02-00 to 00-02-FF</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">VRRP IPv6 (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol IPv6)</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC5798](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc5798)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">00-03-00 to 00-51-FF</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-00</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">PacketPWEthA</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC6658](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc6658)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-01</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">PacketPWEthB</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC6658](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc6658)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-02</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">BFD for VXLAN</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC8971](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc8971)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-03 to 00-52-12</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned (small allocations)</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-13</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">Proxy Mobile IPv6</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC6543](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc6543)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">00-52-14 to 00-52-FF</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned (small allocations)</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">00-53-00 to 00-53-FF</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">Documentation</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC7042](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc7042)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">00-54-00 to 90-00-FF</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 35px;"><td style="height: 35px; width: 150.578px;">90-01-00</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 429.625px;">TRILL OAM</td><td style="height: 35px; width: 79.5469px;">\[[RFC7455](https://www.iana.org/go/rfc7455)\]</td></tr><tr style="height: 29px;"><td style="height: 29px; width: 150.578px;">90-01-01 to 90-01-FF</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned (small allocations requiring both unicast and multicast)</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 28px;"><td style="height: 28px; width: 150.578px;">90-02-00 to FF-FF-FF</td><td style="height: 28px; width: 429.625px;">Unassigned</td><td style="height: 29px; width: 79.5469px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table>

[Source](https://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers/ethernet-numbers.xml)

#### OUIs of virtualization platforms

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="bkmrk-company-and-products" width="607"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="355">**Company and Products**</td><td valign="top" width="252">**MAC unique identifier (s)**</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">VMware ESX 3, Server, Workstation, Player</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-50-56, 00-0C-29, 00-05-69</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual Server, Virtual PC</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-03-FF

00-15-5D

</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Parallells Desktop, Workstation, Server, Virtuozzo</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-1C-42</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Virtual Iron 4</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-0F-4B</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Red Hat Xen</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-16-3E</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Oracle VM</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-16-3E</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">XenSource</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-16-3E</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Novell Xen</td><td valign="top" width="252">00-16-3E</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="355">Sun xVM VirtualBox</td><td valign="top" width="252">08-00-27</td></tr></tbody></table>

[Source](https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/mac-address-scorecard-for-common-virtual-machine-platforms/)

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