However, I still don't quite understand why merely blacklisting that vendor will help/won't break anything. What about VMs with more than one NIC? Such as a virtualized firewall? They certainly need persistent ethN enumeration just as much as "real" machines with multiple NICs?
http:// coffer. com/mac_ find/?string= vmware confirms these two vendor prefixes from VMWare (and two more).
However, I still don't quite understand why merely blacklisting that vendor will help/won't break anything. What about VMs with more than one NIC? Such as a virtualized firewall? They certainly need persistent ethN enumeration just as much as "real" machines with multiple NICs?