On 29 Apr 2013, at 20:39, Ray Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Huitema wrote: >>> The "problem" here is that don't have all the names/IDs we'd like. For >>> example, using the MAC address as the Interface_ID would do for this >>> purpose... but the the IPv6 address is tied to the MAC address, and would >>> change upon replacement of the NIC (which is generally undesirable)... >> >> Undesirable by whom? For a laptop, for example, the most likely cause of a >> MAC address change is that the user/owner used an administrative command to >> change it, probably in an attempt at getting privacy. Keeping the same IID >> would defeat the purpose. >> >> On the other hand, if I am managing a big server, I would like to retain the >> same IPv6 addresses to avoid disrupting service. But then, if I want a fixed >> address, I would probably ensure that by configuring a fixed address, not by >> relying on a side effect of automatic address configuration. >> >> -- Christian Huitema > Right. But a bad side effect of manually configuring fixed addresses is > that you derail all of the good work around renumbering. > > It might prove operationally useful to be able to configure a static > IID, but still continue to use of a variable network prefix (derived > from RA).
As per http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02 ? Tim
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