From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] dhcpv4 to slaac naming rfc ready to submit
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:01:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217230149.GE27322@angus.ind.WPI.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140217101154.GA1958@ens-lyon.fr>
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:11:54AM +0100, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > At best, this is a partial solution. Using a Modified EUI-64 (RFC4291
> > sec 2.5.1) is not very reliable. Many systems out there, including
> > Windows and recent Linux distributions, do Privacy Addressing by
> > default, so you will never find their SLAAC address by assuming they
> > constructed their address using EUI-64 based on their Link Layer
> > Address. Also, they may not respond to ICMPv6 echo requests due to
> > firewall settings.
>
> Privacy extensions define *additional* addresses, while keeping the SLAAC
> addresses. RFC4941 does not explicitely state so, but it is hinted at in
> Section 2.4, third paragraph.
Well, whatever Windows 7 does, it doesn't provide *ANY* EUI-64 address
at all, so this won't work with the most popular platform out there.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-14 21:15 Dave Taht
2014-02-14 21:28 ` Simon Kelley
2014-02-14 23:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-02-15 15:28 ` Chuck Anderson
2014-02-17 10:11 ` Baptiste Jonglez
2014-02-17 23:01 ` Chuck Anderson [this message]
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