On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jer...@mompl.net> wrote: > I am trying to set up a local IPv6 network and am curious why all the > examples I come accross do not seem to use the 40-bit pseudorandom number? > What should I do? Use something like fd00::1234, or incorporate something > like the interface's MAC address into the address? It'd make the address > quite unreadable though.
Jeroen, I see it like this: You can pick anything in fd00::/8 that you want, but if you don't follow the random selection rules in the RFC then it's *your fault* when you go to connect a VPN to someone else who picked the same network. Also, the DNS is your friend, even more so with IPv6 than with IPv4. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
