On 26/02/13 06:14, Fernando Gont wrote:
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.
On my network, the Windows nodes use stateful DHCPv6. I don't see this
technique as a universal panacea or something to necessarily rely on
going forward, but it does make naming work
_for_existing_deployed_systems. It works, for instance, with hundreds of
millions of existing Android phones and tablets, 99.99% of which will
never be upgraded.
Simon.
Cheers,
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