From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 08:53:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F6D16A41F for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:53:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BAA343D45 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:53:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 13 Aug 2005 09:53:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:53:04 +0100 From: David Malone To: Emanuel Strobl Message-ID: <20050813085304.GA77880@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200508122053.29480@harrymail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508122053.29480@harrymail> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:53:06 -0000 On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address, the > 16 bits were inserted with the value FFFE. And bit 57 was changed to one! > Why???? What if it is alread one? Or isn't tehre any vendor who can have > bit 41 of his MAC 1? Some of the bits of a MAC address are reserved. There is a bit that indicates if the address is the address of a group of machines (for multicast) or the address of a single machine. The bit that is flipped when generating IPv6 addresses is the "local/global" bit, that indicates if the address has been assigned locally or by some global authority. For normal ethernet cards, this bit would always be 0. > Now I want to use a dedicated interface, which is in a different subnet, > for 5 jails. How do I do that if I want to keep the MAC relation and if > I'm not allewd to change the FFFE insert? It isn't possible then, is it? > What should I do instead? Invent my own 64-bit scheme? I'd suggest that you use manually assigned addresses in cases like this. You know what sort of addresses will be generated by autoconfiguration, so it should be easy for you to choose addresses that won't clash. Unfortunately jails do not actually support restricting the use of IPv6 addresses right now. David.