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Re: Feedback on draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Sun, 15 April 2012 14:17 UTC

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On 04/15/2012 02:07 AM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> You don't really need the EUI64 for the proposal to work. We could
> just as well completely omit the field, and simply use the EUI64 as
> an optional seed for the random number. But there are two
> advantages:

You need to be able to differentiate the interfaces, or else two NICs
connected to the same subnet would produce the same IPIv6 address.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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