Why does HP Procurve assign a mac address to each of its ports?

Question

network hardware

Why does HP ProCurve assign a mac address to each of its ports, and where can it be used?

Answer 1

on L2 and above, poppies / ip are already present, even on managle. Otherwise, how can you reach him via the same ssh/telnet/http.
as well as for parsing trunks and other tasks. in fact, these are already RISC computers with n network cards