[51442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Aug 27 17:31:57 2002
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:30:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <web-1421242@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > Since it so easy for a host (relative to ipv4) to have multiple ip
> > addresses, I like what Microsoft has done. If told by a router, a Win
> > XP box will assign itself a global unicast address using EUI-64. It
> > will also create a global unicast anonymous address. This will not be
> > tied to the hardware, and the OS will also limit how long it uses that
>
> Wasn't this described in an Internet draft ? Do you know what the status is -
> I cannot seem to find it.
RFC 3041. There's also
http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/specs/ipv6-address-privacy.html
