Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > For what it's worth, > > Whenever statelessly auto-configuring an IPv6 address on Ethernet the > 10th and 11th bytes are always 'fffe', hardcoded. These are lost bits.
The world has more devices than Ethernet. The Ethernet MAC -> EUI-64 trick (thus your lost fffe bits) is just a trick. Take firewire for example which uses full EUI-64. Greets, Jeroen
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