> -----Original Message----- > From: gopi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Thursday 27 September 2001 01:44, Brian Zill wrote: > > > > For stateless autoconfiguration on Ethernets as > > described above, the answer is yes. However, if > > I was running an important server, I would > > manually pick an interface ID to assign to my server > > and continue to use > > Is there any particular way /method / pattern you choose this > ID? gopi.
Well, two of the bits have special meaning, the individual/group bit, and the globally unique bit (which in this case you leave off to indicate that you picked it yourself). I don't have the spec in front of me, so I can't tell you offhand which bits those are, but it's easy to look up. For the other 62 bits, any method that yields a high probability of uniqueness on your subnet is fine (if you're the only person assigning addresses on your subnet, this quickly becomes a trivial problem). For example, one very good solution is to flip a coin 62 times and set the bits 0 or 1 based on whether the coin lands heads or tails. --Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
