[114263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue May 5 04:15:27 2009
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:15:12 +0200
In-Reply-To: <49FFA489.6060000@brightok.net> (Jack Bates's message of "Mon,
04 May 2009 21:29:29 -0500")
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Jack Bates:
> Sorry, Ricky. But that won't work. EUI-64 is required for autoconfig,
> and it expands the 48 bits to 64 bits by inserting FFFF or FFFE
> depending on if the original is a MAC-48 or EUI-48 identifier.
I'm rather puzzled why this blatant layering violation is still sold
as a must-have feature.
--=20
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