Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

2009-07-15 Thread Vijayrajan ranganathan
Hi Tim, This is a wonderful idea!! Do you by any chance know whether Sun has a patent on this? Is it possible for me to adopt a variation of this idea in my implementation? Thanks to everyone for sharing your thoughts, much appreciated !! Thanks & Regards, Vijay On Wed, Jul 8, 2

Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

2009-07-15 Thread Vijayrajan ranganathan
Hi Aleksi, These are indeed good ideas. The 1st solution is not feasible in my case as I am stuck with an existing implementation. But regarding the 2nd solution, I am wondering how vmware and xen are able to offer a unique MAC address to each virtual OS. I mean, what address space

Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

2009-07-15 Thread Vijayrajan ranganathan
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 wrote: > On Thu