Date: 29 May 1998 08:45:20 -0500 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@austin.ibm.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses Message-ID: <v5taf81i427.fsf@taklimakan.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Philippe Regnauld's message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:44 %2B0200" References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980529151553.25285A-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> <19980529111144.52791@deepo.prosa.dk>
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Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> 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
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