[ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Liran Liss]

RFC 4291, Appendix A.
--Liran

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rdreier at cisco.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:18 PM
To: Liran Liss
Cc: Richard Frank; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org; OpenFabrics EWG
Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes


 > RFC 3041 deals with static global IP addresses on the Internet,  >
especially for portable devices.
 > rmdaoe allows using link-local GIDs for applications residing on the
> same subnet, so I don't see the relevance.

I guess you're right -- I was confused about when random addresses are
used for generating stateless autoconfig addresses, and I guess even
with RFC3041 they are not for link-local scope.  However, do you know of
anything in the IPv6 RFCs that guarantees that link-local IPv6 addresses
are generated using ethernet addresses?

 - R.