-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 3 2002 03:36 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
> % some Qs: > % > % Is it legal to assign a random ipv6 address and use > % it? Otherwise, whom do I contact to obtain an IPv6 > % address ? > > no its not legal. you could use the IP address > that is automatically assigned to your system when > IPv6 is enabled. > Or you can use the 2002:: space (6to4) Speaking of 6to4... I got into a discussion with a guy in Australia who is setting up 6to4 on a bunch of systems (he has an IPv4 /24) and after a while I got to wonder... I seem to recall that the 6to4 IPv6 prefix was created by taking 2002:, appending the IPv4 address of the router, and using that as a 48-bit prefix. However, now I find pages saying that it's the *host's* IPv4 address which is used - making both the SLA and Interface ID parts of the IPv6 address irrelevant. Which is it...? Michael Kj�rling - -- Michael Kj�rling -- Programmer/Network administrator ^..^ Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FidoNet: 2:204/254.4 \/ PGP: 95f1 074d 336d f8f0 f297 6a5b 2aa3 7bfd 8a70 e33e ``And indeed people sometimes speak of man's "bestial" cruelty, but this is very unfair and insulting to the beasts: a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so ingeniously, so artistically cruel.'' (Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov') -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key is at http://michael.kjorling.com/contact/pgp.html iD4DBQE8qwvLKqN7/Ypw4z4RAllDAJdxZQdwU1P3aQpdqmemirDaLLwTAKCvkvck zO1Xc5ZVjLB46BsdJLl8Mg== =dNjF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
