On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:24 +0100, A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
add into that dynamic IPv6 addreses in the link-local domain when systems want to talk to eachother. noone in the rest of the network needs to know those addresses so how/when do they get logged and known about? ;-)
You don't need to know them - or rather, you already know them. They are derivable from the MAc addresses of the machines.
aye. stateless router solicitated addreses just work but then you've got to keep track/log them...and they can often change, nice. DHCPv6 would be okay - ha. if only clients actually supported it!
Clients took quite a while to support DHCP, remember those days? DHCPv6 is ready to go on MAC OSX and Linux, trivially installable in most Unix variants, and there's a straightforward client (Dibbler) available for Windows. Windows 7 *may* have a client built in. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) GPG fingerprint: 07F3 1DF9 9D45 8BCD 7DD5 00CE 4A44 6A03 F43A 7DEF