On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Gert Doering wrote: <snip>
The idea is that ULAs are random-generated in a way that makes it "fairly unlikely" that you end up in an address collision. But there is no guarantee, of course.
There is also a second sort of ULAs that are globally unique but still private, but as far as I know, there is no registry yet that will hand them out. So these can't be used yet.
Who would know more about this? I'm in the process of writing down some startup thoughts about how we can (and maybe should) implement IPv6 here where I work. It's a closed national network where security is prio 1 and we might also have to work/connect to other network of the same type in other countries... in short, we need to be globaly unique so we actually need that registrary to be there:) -- ------------------------------ Roger Jorgensen | rogerj@stud.cs.uit.no | - IPv6 is The Key! http://www.jorgensen.no | roger@jorgensen.no -------------------------------------------------------