VMWare ESXi and mysterious MAC addresses

Lately I’ve done a lot of lab testing with access switches and security features. To be more precise, I’ve done 802.1X testing on Cisco switches with the new IBNS 2.0 configuration style – but that’s another story.
During testing, bogus MAC addresses are sent in frames from the ESXi host to my switch, which interferes with some security features …

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