Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-16 Thread Parav Pandit
Please fine inline response. Parav --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Suresh Krishnan wrote: > From: Suresh Krishnan > Subject: Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without > Neighbor discovery > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" >

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Parav, Please see comments inline. On 10-04-15 01:55 AM, Parav Pandit wrote: Hi, As per RFC 2464, Link local address for Ethernet based interfaces are based on the EUI-64 (derived from the MAC address). I have #3 questions based on this. In this case, when one Ethernet based host(from

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Fred Baker
he RFC 3972 doesn't apply to the 64-bits of the Link-local addresses, but it > applies to 64-bit of the addresses configured via DHCPv6 > and/or stateless auto-conf RFCs 3315, 4862? > > Regards, > Parav Pandit > > --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Fred Baker wrote: > >>

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 15/04/2010 15:17, Cameron Byrne a écrit : On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: Le 15/04/2010 07:55, Parav Pandit a écrit : Hi, As per RFC 2464, Link local address for Ethernet based interfaces are based on the EUI-64 (derived from the MAC address). Right, that is

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Le 15/04/2010 07:55, Parav Pandit a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> As per RFC 2464, Link local address for Ethernet based interfaces >> are based on the EUI-64 (derived from the MAC address). > > Right, that is probably a very widespread way of

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Parav Pandit
Inline. Parav --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > From: Alexandru Petrescu > Subject: Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without > Neighbor discovery > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: "Ipv" > Date: Thursday, April 1

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 15/04/2010 07:55, Parav Pandit a écrit : Hi, As per RFC 2464, Link local address for Ethernet based interfaces are based on the EUI-64 (derived from the MAC address). Right, that is probably a very widespread way of how the link local addresses are derived from a MAC address. There are man

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-15 Thread Parav Pandit
64-bits of the Link-local addresses, but it applies to 64-bit of the addresses configured via DHCPv6 and/or stateless auto-conf RFCs 3315, 4862? Regards, Parav Pandit --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Fred Baker wrote: > From: Fred Baker > Subject: Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link l

Re: deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-14 Thread Fred Baker
There has been some water that passed under that bridge. They not only come from MAC addresses, but from random number generators and cryptographic algorithms - and can simply be numbers assigned by administrators. In addition to 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks. M. Craw

deriving MAC address from destination Link local address without Neighbor discovery

2010-04-14 Thread Parav Pandit
Hi, As per RFC 2464, Link local address for Ethernet based interfaces are based on the EUI-64 (derived from the MAC address). I have #3 questions based on this. In this case, when one Ethernet based host(from its link-local source) tries to ping the other Ethernet based host, it knows the Mac