On 2012-04-21, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 20 April 2012, at 18:21, Michael Mol wrote:
>> ? 
>> The inet6 address listed is
>> 
>>  fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18
>> 
>> and your MAC is
>> 
>>  bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18
>> 
>> ? 
>> 
>>  be:5f:f4:19:ad:18
>> 
>> Which is your MAC.
>
> And then we just convert all incidences of the letter "e" to "c"? Is
> there some rule for this part?

Yes.  I answered that question in the original thread.  You toggle bit
1 of the first byte of the MAC address when converting to/from an IPv6
LL address.

> Perhaps I'm missing something here.

RFC2464 sections 4 and 5.

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