Re: Interface Identifier from Ethernet Address: Inverting U/L bit

[Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Rajan Srivastava wrote:
> I could not understand the reason why U/L bit needs to be complemented?
> Is it simply to increase readability of overall IPv6 address?

Yes.

(For manually configured addresses, that is.)

It also allows you to specify cool manual addresses like 2001:db8::53 
(where the IID is not universal).

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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