[LINK] IPv6 doomed

Glen Turner gdt at gdt.id.au
Tue Aug 26 12:06:28 AEST 2008


Adam Todd wrote:

> The power goes out and all your devised renumber themselves, 
> seemingly randomly.

IPv6 Autoconf addresses consist of a prefix and suffix. The
prefix is advertisd by the router. This doesn't change unless the
router is reconfigured. The suffix is based on the MAC
address of the interface. This doesn't change.
As a result IPv6 autoconf addresses do not change between
reboots.

-- 
  Glen Turner   <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/>



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