Universal/Local Bit

Hi All,

  I am trying to understand the need for inverting the U/L bit(7th MSB bit)
to get the modfied EUI-64 address for IPV6.My understanding is,FFFE is
inserted in middle to increase the size from 48 bit mac address to 64 so
that we could be able to accomdate ipv6 /64 host spacing and couldn't
understand why we invert U/L bit.Thanks for the assistance.

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

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Received on Tue Jun 23 2009 - 07:23:28 ART