On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:34:40PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
| > Also, sthen, since it is 2018 .. you shouldn't be using eui64
| > addressing anymore ;-)
|
| I'm confused. Was I using eui addressing in the IPV4 version? If I
| shouldn't use eui, what *should* I use instead? My understanding from
| 10 minutes of reading is that eui is a way of auto-setting IP addresses
| within the subnet, based on Mac addresses, which are presumed unique
| within the subnet.
I was just pulling Stuart's leg. His example IPv6 address was an
EUI-64 address, a 'trick' where your IPv6 address containts the MAC
address of your network interface (48 bits) with one bit changed plus
16 bits of "ff:fe" in the middle.
These days, slaacd(8) configures SOII (Semantically Opaque Interface
Identifiers, see RFC 7217 for details) addresses by default. It's the
new kool-aid, you should drink it! :)
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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