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Re: Router Solicitations

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Niklas Neumann
<niklas.neumann@cs.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> Compared to DHCP for example were the servers usually reassign the same
> IP-Address to hosts. I know that with IPv6 nobody will care about
> IP-Addresses so much anymore but if they are somewhat persistent with the
> autoconfiguration they would still provide some recognizability.
>
>

During autoconfiguration, the IP address is usually constructed from
the MAC address. So for a given prefix
the address will be persistent (unless the MAC changes, do to a
hardware, or configuration change, which
should be quite rare).

regards,

Benoit