Hi, Simon, On 02/23/2013 03:02 PM, Simon Kelley wrote: > On 23/02/13 17:56, Teemu Savolainen wrote: >> And this works with hosts that use IPv6 privacy addresses and not have >> IIDs derived from MAC? > > If they have only privacy addresses, it doesn't work. If they have both > a SLAAC address and a privacy address, and use the privacy address when > initiating connections (for privacy), but accept connections to the > SLAAC address, then it still works.
But.. if you're learning the IPv6 addresses based on the assumption that they are the traditional SLAAC addresses (that embed IEEE identifiers), you'd be missing IPv6 addresses of Windows nodes (which do not generate IIDs according to traditional SLAAC), any nodes using CGAs, etc. Cheers, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
