Re: IPv6 Link-Local Use Issue for Applications

2003-08-19 Thread Dean Strik
Benny Amorsen wrote: On 2003-08-19 at 04:14, Mark Smith wrote: a) MAC addresses are reasonably easily to change. You can't guarantee b) There have been cases where manufacturers have allocated non-unique MAC addresses. What is worse is that these duplications have c) MAC addresses are

Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-07 Thread Dean Strik
Bob Hinden wrote: A) Deprecate Site-Local addresses independently from having an alternative solution available. A. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ipnet6.org/ This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. --

Re: IPv6 Address validation

2003-06-24 Thread Dean Strik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see the need as long as the result is 16-bits, but would like to see if there are other opinions. My opinion would be to reject more than 4 hex digits. RFC 2553, section 6.6: #define INET6_ADDRSTRLEN 46 I'm not 100% sure about the relevance of