Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jack Bates:
>
> > Sorry, Ricky. But that won't work. EUI-64 is required for autoconfig,
> > and it expands the 48 bits to 64 bits by inserting FFFF or FFFE
> > depending on if the original is a MAC-48 or EUI-48 identifier.
>
> I'm rather puzzled why this blatant layering violation is still sold
> as a must-have feature.

It's not a must have if you manage your own network. There are always 
other options. That being said, if you are an ISP handing out prefixes 
to customers, there is an expectation that the customer will probably 
use it given the direction CPE implementations are going. Thus you have 
to predict that if you don't want to setup all your customer's networks 
for them, they'll probably be using /64 per subnet.


Jack