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by mcguire 2258 days ago
Each Ethernet interface has a unique address; using them is widely regarded as a privacy violation.
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That can be solved, but more importantly, Ethernet can not scale beyond 10k or so nodes because the addresses are meaningless and there's no way to tell what the next hop for an address you've never seen before should be beyond just sending it everywhere and hoping for the best. There's also no way to prevent spoofing, which would be a huge nuisance.