[gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-01-22, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> Here's an elucidation of what I was thinking. I'll assume the company
> building the product builds many embedded systems. I was thinking you
> could use an assumed ULA prefix as associated with all of these
> products, e.g. fd62:f67b:fcb9::/48.[1] You've then got 32 bits of
> address space for product organization and categorization before you
> come down to a /64, whereupon each device in the line gets its own
> unique address derived from its MAC. You could then either have the
> device broadcast an RA for that /64 or manually configure another host
> to use that /64 to access that device's initial configuration
> interface.
>
> Anyway, that's what I was thinking there. Just food for thought. :)

That certainly sounds like a good place to start.

> [1] I used an Android app which implements RFC4193 to generate this
> prefix; you'd obviously want to come up with your own prefix.

Right.  Thanks.

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