On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 16:47, David Täht <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just as a data point, the babel and AHCP protocols creates a router-id
> from a EUI-64. problem solved, there.


And when there is a collision, what happens? The network breaks?

Note that I say "when" there is a collision and not "if" because:

- MAC addresses are supposed to be unique, but in practice, there are
duplicates.
- If a home router supports MAC address cloning, then there are more
duplicates.
- When you try to fit a 64-bit EUI-64 into 32 bits, sooner or later there
will be a collision, because, as my mother used to say, "you can't fit a
quart into a pint pot".
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