Where to buy Internet IP addresses

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Tue May 5 08:15:12 UTC 2009


* 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.

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