Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

[Vijayrajan ranganathan <vijayrn at gmail.com>]

Hi David,
    Yes, indeed the implementation I am working on (it is FreeBSD based)
    is generating autoconf addresses in the same manner. It picks up the
    host-id part from the configured Link-local address.

Thanks & Regards
Vijay

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Malone<dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:40:20PM +0530, Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote:
>> Is there a standard solution for this kind of problem?
>
> On some OSes it is possible to control the host part of the
> autoconfigured address by manually configuring a link local address
> before the interface is brought up. The host part of this address
> is then used for the rest of the autoconfiguration process. I've
> done this on older versions of FreeBSD.
>
>        David.
>