[138759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?)
Mon Mar 14 19:49:18 2011
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <E34D2A5E-FBD4-41F6-AAF8-B60162F8EA71@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:49:13 -0700
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 14, 2011, at 16:38, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> Doesn't SLAAC give you automatic "MAC address to IP" mapping? It'll =
save you manually doing that (in an otherwise well controlled =
environment).
>=20
> No, it doesn't. On some systems, the mac address is used to create the =
ipv6 address, but not on others (e.g. windows 7).
Sorry, I made the mail a bit too short I supposed. "Well controlled =
environment" in my case is a bunch of relatively homogeneous linux =
server systems ("plain" hardware and virtualized), all managed by the =
same team.
- ask
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