Ignatios Souvatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
Aha, so a device that has two interfaces one towards an IEEE LAN link and the other towards another type of link will inevitably prefer the IEEE LAN identifier as being "more unique" than the others, right? That's a cool idea, I would like to experiment with it. Alex -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
