Hi David, Yes, indeed the implementation I am working on (it is FreeBSD based) is generating autoconf addresses in the same manner. It picks up the host-id part from the configured Link-local address.
Thanks & Regards Vijay On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Malone<dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:40:20PM +0530, Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote: >> Is there a standard solution for this kind of problem? > > On some OSes it is possible to control the host part of the > autoconfigured address by manually configuring a link local address > before the interface is brought up. The host part of this address > is then used for the rest of the autoconfiguration process. I've > done this on older versions of FreeBSD. > > David. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------