Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations
Ask Bjørn Hansen
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Mon Mar 14 23:49:13 UTC 2011
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).
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> 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.
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