[Olsr-dev] IPv6 Unique Local Addresses

Alina Friedrichsen (spam-protected)
Thu Nov 27 22:46:45 CET 2008


Hi Henning!

> I think the problem is that nobody in the OLSR.org team has lot's of 
> experience with IPv6... but it sounds like an important step for 
> autoconfiguration.

In IPv6 you don't need a complex algorithm for address autoconfiguration, you can simply take your MAC address or a 64 bit random number. The probability for an address conflict is much less then a human error in manuall configuration.

Regards
Alina

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