Check whether MAC addresses are locally administered

Locally administered addresses (e.g. randomized addresses used by phones for Wi-Fi privacy, or virtual machines) have the second least significant bit of the first octet set (the U/L bit).

Usage

is_local_MAC(mac)

Arguments

mac

A character vector of MAC addresses.

Value

A logical vector (NA for invalid addresses).

See also

is_multicast_MAC(), random_MAC()

Examples

is_local_MAC(c("02:00:00:00:00:01", "1C:4C:7E:30:D8:13"))
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE