Re: [Autoconf] Self-addressing using local information

[Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ricardo,

El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 10:39 -0200, Ricardo Schmidt escribió:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am developing a short introducing research on autoconfiguration in MANETs.
> Right now I am writing about some protocols for self-addressing.
> 
> I noticed that, most of the proposed solutions implement a randomly
> choice of address.
> For example, a node picks an address from the range 1-2047 for
> temporary address and later an address from the range 2048-65534 for
> the tentative address.
> 
> Well, I would like to know if there available works where a formula is
> implemented for creating an address, in order to avoid the
> duplication. Something like Prophet. However, I am looking for a
> proposal that uses information such as the MAC from the interface to
> calculate a tentative address.

I assume you are considering only IPv4...

I think (not 100% sure) Meraki [1] used the following addressing scheme:
nodes configure IP  addresses that are the static hash of the MAC
address onto the entire 10.0.0.0/8 private network.

[1] http://meraki.com/oursolution/mesh/

> 
> Thanks in advance for repliers!
> 
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