On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:11:54AM +0100, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > At best, this is a partial solution. Using a Modified EUI-64 (RFC4291 > > sec 2.5.1) is not very reliable. Many systems out there, including > > Windows and recent Linux distributions, do Privacy Addressing by > > default, so you will never find their SLAAC address by assuming they > > constructed their address using EUI-64 based on their Link Layer > > Address. Also, they may not respond to ICMPv6 echo requests due to > > firewall settings. > > Privacy extensions define *additional* addresses, while keeping the SLAAC > addresses. RFC4941 does not explicitely state so, but it is hinted at in > Section 2.4, third paragraph.
Well, whatever Windows 7 does, it doesn't provide *ANY* EUI-64 address at all, so this won't work with the most popular platform out there. _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
