Re: [OT] IPv6 addresses collisions
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 23:55, you wrote:
> Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 à 23:15 +0100, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa a
>
> écrit :
> > hi,
> >
> > i have a question that really is off-topic to this mailing list but i
> > would like to query in case of someone can help me. I have a global IPv6
> > prefix of 64 bits and i have configured in the router "router
> > advertisements" that are necesarious for stateless autoconfiguration.
> >
> > My question is if it's possible to configure machines with stateless
> > autoconfiguration and servers with manual configuration (for example,
> > prefix::1 or prefix::24). Sould i mix this mechanism? Could i have
> > collisions of adresses between stateless autoconfiguration and manual
> > configuration of IPv6 addresses?
> >
> > Thanks and sorry for OT,
>
> Hello.
>
> As stateless configuration uses the interface MAC with a few fixed bytes
> (ff:fe for bytes 12-13) you can use many addresses without any chances
> of collision. (like prefix::n)
>
> Regards,
Thanks. You are right but this is only true when works with mac-48 addresses
because other kind of interfaces use differente number of bits to their
identifiers and this should not be valid (RFC 2373, Appendix A). But this's
not my scenario so thanks for openning my eyes xD. Cheers,
--
Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
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