diff --git a/libraries/liblutil/uuid.c b/libraries/liblutil/uuid.c
index f300f42574..6857759fcf 100644
--- a/libraries/liblutil/uuid.c
+++ b/libraries/liblutil/uuid.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ lutil_eaddr( void )
 	if (memcmp(eaddr, zero, sizeof(eaddr)) == 0) {
 		/* XXX - who knows? */
 		lutil_entropy( eaddr, sizeof(eaddr) );
-		eaddr[0] |= 0x80; /* turn it into a multicast address */
+		eaddr[0] |= 0x01; /* turn it into a multicast address */
 	}
 
 	return eaddr;