Exactly - (IMHO) reserving bits to ensure more widespread compatibility, future scalability, etc. is not a loss ... in fact, I am glad we have the bits to (cough) lose in order to accomplish those goals!
/TJ >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Jeroen Massar >Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:37 AM >To: Alexandru Petrescu >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ipv6@ietf.org >Subject: Re: the IPv6 Ethernet lost bits - fffe > >Alexandru Petrescu wrote: >> For what it's worth, >> >> Whenever statelessly auto-configuring an IPv6 address on Ethernet the >> 10th and 11th bytes are always 'fffe', hardcoded. These are lost bits. > >The world has more devices than Ethernet. The Ethernet MAC -> EUI-64 trick >(thus your lost fffe bits) is just a trick. Take firewire for example which >uses full EUI-64. > >Greets, > Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
