Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sun Nov 20 12:05:07 UTC 2011


> >My guess: The language in RFC 4291 which says that interface identifiers
> >are 64 bits:
> >
> >    For all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary
> >    value 000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be
> >    constructed in Modified EUI-64 format.
> 
> Hmm, and allocated addresses start with (currently) 0010, so are 
> required to follow this convention.

Maybe. Note that RFC 4291 is *not* written in the requirement language
style of RFC 2119.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no



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