Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Ifconfig shows that none of the inet6 address have the lower half of the MAC address as is usual.
All devices have a "link local" address that start with "fe80" and contain the MAC address. The MAC address is padded out to 64 bits by inserting "fffe" in the middle. All devices must have that address as it's used for router and host advertisements. I've noticed both 12.1 and Windows 7 also create a 2nd address that's valid on the local subnet, so it's not a private address. I don't know the purpose of that 2nd address, but as it happens in both Linux and Windows, your network had better get used to dealing with it. BTW, there are 4 ways to generate an IPv6 address: 1) Derived from MAC 2) DHCP 3) Random number 4) Manual configuration I suspect that 2nd address uses the random method. Also, with IPv6, multiple addresses are not only allowed, they're expected. If your network is rejecting addresses that don't contain the MAC address, then that's where the problem is. A good book for this sort of thing is "IPv6 Essentials" from O'Reilly. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596100582.do -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org