>>>>> "fred" == fred <Baker (fred)" <[email protected]>> writes: fred> I've said before that I find the fixation an MAC addresses fred> strange; not all devices have MAC addresses in the first fred> place, and having built an EID from a MAC address, there is no
But, enough devices have them that it's just not a concern.
The devices that don't tend not to do any kind of SLAAC.
fred> So the MAC address is at most a seed for building an EID, one
fred> of many, and to my small mind if it doesn't result in a unique
fred> one, the obvious recovery action is to pick another by a
fred> different algorithm.
fred> I gather nobody agrees with me.
I think that we agree with you. I think that most implementations of
SLAAC were done prior to there being any other choice, and simply
haven't been updated to do something different if DAD fails.
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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