Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1599 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen wrote:
> > 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. 
>
>   
That's only an issue if dupes appear on the same local network,
otherwise, the address, as a whole, is still unique.

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