| Introducing IPv6 Tokenised Interface Identifiers into the Linux Kernel | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 08:21 PM | |||
 |
IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) enables network administrators to deploy devices in a network and have those devices automatically generate global addresses without any administrative intervention, and without the need for any stateful configuration service such as DHCPv6. However, certain services --- such as HTTP, SMTP and IMAP --- may better benefit from having ``well known'' identifiers that do not depend on the physical hardware address of the server's network interface card. |
||
| Complete info at ECS EPrints Service. | |||