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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:19:38 -0500
On 18-Jul-12 13:07, Saku Ytti wrote:
On (2012-07-18 11:39 -0500), Stephen Sprunk wrote:Those were not considered requirements for the algorithm in RFC 4193 since there is no scenario /where RFC 4193 addresses are a valid solution in the first place/ for which testability or provability of the algorithm's results are important or even useful.If collision occurs, if dispute occurs, provability that one party did not use BCP method can be useful to solve dispute and decide who renumbers.
In my experience, pointing at RFCs is rarely how disputes are resolved in the real world.
Other potential problem with RFC, if you have software to generate two, if software runs parallel, it may generate same prefixes.
It is incredibly unlikely, and that is all RFC 4193 claims to offer: /statistically /unique addresses. If you want /provably/ unique addresses, use GUAs--or lobby for ULA-C, which to date has been soundly rejected for lack of usefulness.
IEEE decided 2008 or 2009 to start allocation OUIs randomly, since some cheapskates were assigning themselves 'free' OUIs from end of the space, confident it'll never collide. So duplicate OUIs can happen. Also some NIC vendors ship with non-unique MAC.
You'd still need two systems with duplicate MACs to run the algorithm at exactly the same timestamp, which IIRC has a resolution of 2^-32 seconds.
What makes RFC method good?
RFC 4193 doesn't mandate any particular algorithm; it just provides an example that was designed to be easily implemented and used. You can use another RNG if you wish. S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Saku Ytti (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Mark Andrews (Jul 19)
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- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space valdis . kletnieks (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Stephen Sprunk (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jimmy Hess (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Karl Auer (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Stephen Sprunk (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Mark Andrews (Jul 18)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Saku Ytti (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Stephen Sprunk (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space valdis . kletnieks (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Saku Ytti (Jul 19)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Randy Bush (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jimmy Hess (Jul 15)
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