Description: One of the very interesting thing in IPv6 is its automatic addressing stuff. For generating unique automatic address the machines generally use the MAC address. With the help of the MAC address (which is globally unique) the interface derives lower 64bits of the address. The higher 64 bits are taken from the router prefix or for link local address these bytes are fixed. These days some machines implement random number generator for deriving lower 64 bits, but still EUI64 from MAC address is a very popular and easy to use method. This video explains how to derive EUI 64 form from the MAC address. I have also explained the rationale behind the method for converting MAC address to EUI 64 address. <p>This conversion process can be explained in two steps. </p>
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