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Apr 21, 2012, 10:00 AM
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Re: MAC from IPv6 address. WAS: Re: How to find the MAC address
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On 2012-04-21, Stroller <stroller [at] stellar> wrote:
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> On 20 April 2012, at 18:21, Michael Mol wrote:
>> ?
>> The inet6 address listed is
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>> fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe19:ad18
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>> and your MAC is
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>> bc:5f:f4:19:ad:18
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>> ?
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>> be:5f:f4:19:ad:18
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>> Which is your MAC.
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> And then we just convert all incidences of the letter "e" to "c"? Is
> there some rule for this part?
Yes. I answered that question in the original thread. You toggle bit
1 of the first byte of the MAC address when converting to/from an IPv6
LL address.
> Perhaps I'm missing something here.
RFC2464 sections 4 and 5.
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