Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
NAT seems completely superfluous when the networks are dished out as /64. I did notice that there is a reserved range of private/local/site-unique addresses (prefix fd), but I'm not quite sure what that is intended for. My understanding is those are addresses that can be used within an organization, either through a router or not, but not accessable by the world. That's the weird thing - it doesn't say so. At least not in wikipedia.
Yea, that's a credible source. :)
Hardly reference material, but I figured the IPv6 material wouldn't exactly be hot controversial stuff :-)
fe80::/10 - Link local, those-MAC-derived addresses, at least for Ethernet. It uses a mechanism knows as SLAAC to come up with, at least on Ethernet, theoretically unique address.
Reuse of MAC ranges has been heard of.
fec0::/10 - Site local, like 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, etc...
RFC3879 deprecated those, but doesn't seem to propose any alternative. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org