"Bound, Jim" wrote: > > Below is a picture of two links: Link 1 and Link 2. Link 1 has > Host-L1-B and Host-L1-C. Link 2 has Host-L2-E and Host-L2-F. > A multihomed Host-LX-D0 is connected to both Link 1 and Link 2. > All hosts have both a Link-Local address FE80::XXXX and a Global > Address 3FFE:YY::XXXX. Note that Host-L1-B and Host-L2-E have the > same Link-Local address as FE80::MAC1. This is permitted in IPv6 > for separate links.
It was my understanding that duplicate MACs are not permitted by the MAC allocations, which are *supposed* to guarantee that each physical interface device has a unique MAC. Which would imply that a link-local addressed based on a MAC is in fact globally unique, by definition? What have I missed? -- Andrew White -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
