Re: about hardware address

[Yukiyo Akisada <akisada at tahi.org>]

Hi, Jinmei-san.

Thank you very much.

Now I'm really clear.

Regards,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:26:38 -0800
JINMEI Tatuya / ¿ 癆 明達哉 <Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org> wrote:

> At Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:06 -0800,
> JINMEI Tatuya wrote:
> 
> > > I have a question about RFC 4862 Section 5.4.5.
> > > Please let me confirm about it.
> > > 
> > > It says,
> > > 
> > >     909    If the address is a link-local address formed from an interface
> > >     910    identifier based on the hardware address, which is supposed to be
> > >     911    uniquely assigned (e.g., EUI-64 for an Ethernet interface), IP
> > >     912    operation on the interface SHOULD be disabled.
> > > 
> > > Does the word 'hardware address' here mean MAC address itself?
> > > Or the address which is assigned physically at the factory?
> > 
> > I'd say it's the latter, according to the background idea of this rule
> 
> Sorry, I made a very confusing typo: I meant "it's the former".


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