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IPv6 - Public IPs, private IPs, IPs derived from the MAC address? Confused!
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I'm pretty much excited for IPv6 because of the large address room and (potential?) owning of more than one IP, or even tens of IPs (/122 subnet?) Though one magazine has now confused me. In a current issue (no. 3) of "CT", a German computer magazine, I read that when using IPv6 your IP address con…
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Your magazine is right. IPv6 address consists of two parts: network prefix and host address. If host address is not assigned, then computer autogenerates it, usually by using MAC address. Which means your IP includes something that uniquely identifi…
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