Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

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Iljitsch van Beijnum a écrit :
> On 21 feb 2008, at 14:31, Rémi Després wrote:
> 
>> - These addresses would, for example, have  FF00::/8 at the beginning 
>> of their IID  (no currently specified IPv6 IID begins that way; 
>> randomness on 58 bits is good enough).
(Sorry for the typo. Should be 56.)
> You're right, there is currently no way other than a rather non-obvious 
> use of manual address configuration or DHCPv6 address pool configuration 
> to arrive at an interface identifier where the U/L bit is "global" and 
> the group bit is set, i.e., with bits 6 and 7 of the IID set to 1. This 
> means that there is an untapped range of 62 bits worth of IIDs that we 
> can still give a new purpose where the address type can be relatively 
> unambiguously determined from the IID. It would be a shame to squander 
> that resource without thinking about other uses first. (Although using 
> only one of the 64 possible ranges of 56 bits is probably reasonalbe.)
> 
> But shouldn't we be having this discussion in 6man?
Yes, I think so.


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