On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:23:17PM +0100, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > For example, how about better separating IPv6-over-Ethernet rfc2464 > from the current address architecture draft of rfc2373? My precise > suggestion would be to move EUI-64 and Modified EUI-64 from the latter > to the former. Of course, there are reasons for it be where it is, > I'm just trying to understand why this is or is not possible.
The idea is to use the same 64bit Interface Identifier (especially if a
globally unique, e.g., derived from the EUI-64 of the node, if available,
or the EUI-64 of one of the Ethernet devices) also for an interface on
a different link that has no globally unique identifier itself. (E.g., on
a serial point-to-point link, or Arcnet).
This way, the probability of address collisions, which have to be sorted
out somehow, is smaller.
Regards,
-is
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