On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Thomas Prochaska wrote: > > this is about the common way of autoconfiguring IPv6 addresses by > > creating the host-specific interface identifier (the lower 64 bits > > of the address)from the Ethernet address of the host. This can > > indeed be reversed, so the request makes sense. > > That's right. But I think the question is if that is always possible. > The interface doesn't necessarily have to be autoconfigured. Maybe we > can think of a way to handle this cases.
The autoconfigured addresses have the bytes 0xFF and 0xFE in the middle of the MAC address to fill the lower 64 bits. -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
