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On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:23, Brian Zill wrote: > > 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. Thanks for the insight Brian, but what happens if routers advertise different prefixes on different i/fs and a permenant add machine (eg web server) needs to be relocated? Do the DNS entries need to be changed when this happens? gopi. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
