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Re: Interface Identifier from Ethernet Address: Inverting U/L bit

Rajan,

At 06:08 AM 11/23/2004, Rajan Srivastava wrote: 
Hi,

I could not understand the reason why U/L bit needs to be complemented?
Is it simply to increase readability of overall IPv6 address?

See fifth paragraph of section 2.5.1 of RFC 3513, starting with "The motivation for inverting the "u" bit....".

Bob




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