On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:57:58PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Bernie Volz (volz) writes: > > I would think that how an address is assigned shouldn't enter into this. > > I can't see that it matters. > > It matters only in that different assignment mechanisms have different > inherent stabilities: > > manual: "forever" > > DHCPv6: until the lifetime expires and the server refuses to > renew > > stateless: until the network interface hardware is swapped > > temporary: "soon"
There's a nice feature on Solaris for tokenised IDs such that you can specificy manually the host part of an address, e.g. ::53 on a DNS server, and the full address is formed from the RA information. A colleague did a similar implementation for Linux. So an address can in principle be partially manual :) And DHCP can assign temporary addresses. Alain sums it up best I think - you can only make a best guess. -- Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
