From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 29 06:45:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25473 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 06:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ausmail.austin.ibm.com (ausmail.austin.ibm.com [192.35.232.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25417 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 06:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@austin.ibm.com) Received: from netmail.austin.ibm.com (netmail.austin.ibm.com [9.53.250.98]) by ausmail.austin.ibm.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA25434 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:45:25 -0500 Received: from taklimakan.austin.ibm.com (taklimakan.austin.ibm.com [9.53.150.247]) by netmail.austin.ibm.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA80304 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:41:26 -0500 Received: (from marquard@localhost) by taklimakan.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.7-client1.01) id IAA39050; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:45:24 -0500 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses References: <19980529111144.52791@deepo.prosa.dk> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 29 May 1998 08:45:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Philippe Regnauld's message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:44 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.2/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Philippe Regnauld writes: > Nicholas Charles Brawn writes: > > Is there an equivalent rfc (to 1918) that covers what network addresses > > you can use for internal ipv6 networks? I know that it's not really worth > > worrying about at this stage, but it would be good to know regardless. :) > > There are some experimental. In reality, IPv6 uses your > mac address and inserts a prefix^H^H^Hmidfix (don't have the book > handy) in the middle -- this makes your host autoconfigurable > at link and network level. For Internetwork, the prefix for > your org. is concatenated. Last I knew it was still a prefix, i.e. fe80::. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message