At Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:06 -0800, JINMEI Tatuya wrote: > > I have a question about RFC 4862 Section 5.4.5. > > Please let me confirm about it. > > > > It says, > > > > 909 If the address is a link-local address formed from an interface > > 910 identifier based on the hardware address, which is supposed to be > > 911 uniquely assigned (e.g., EUI-64 for an Ethernet interface), IP > > 912 operation on the interface SHOULD be disabled. > > > > Does the word 'hardware address' here mean MAC address itself? > > Or the address which is assigned physically at the factory? > > I'd say it's the latter, according to the background idea of this rule
Sorry, I made a very confusing typo: I meant "it's the former". --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
