>It was my understanding that duplicate MACs are not permitted >by the MAC allocations, which are *supposed* to guarantee that >each physical interface device has a unique MAC. > >Which would imply that a link-local addressed based on a MAC >is in fact globally unique, by definition? > >What have I missed?
The rule you state is only per Link. Not multiple links. There is no rule that you cannot duplicate link-locals on separate links only prefixes. /jim > >-- >Andrew White >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >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] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
