From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 6:11: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f168.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2301D37B418 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:11:01 -0800 Received: from 200.3.154.6 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:11:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.3.154.6] From: "Juan Luis Baptiste" To: jylefort@brutele.be, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IPv6 autoconfiguration Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:11:01 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Nov 2001 14:11:01.0964 (UTC) FILETIME=[842BE0C0:01C1735F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why do you want to get rid of that addresses? fe80 are link local addresses, and are the representation of the MAC address in EUI-64 format. And as far as I know, the are used for neighbor discovery and autoconfiguration purposes.