On 31/03/2011, at 10:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I rather like the thought that each BMW will need its own BGP4
> advertisement. Boeing tried that for a while with airplanes, and
> it didn't work out too well.
My laptop has an address based on the physical network interface's MAC address,
which is used over a tunnel to Apple for Back to my Mac. It doesn't do BGP4,
obviously, and I assume it works well.
utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::217:f2ff:fed5:a13%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 fd00:6587:52d7:20:217:f2ff:fed5:a13 prefixlen 64
Perhaps something a bit more relevant to IETF is generating a ULA prefix from a
VIN?
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