Release 5.2 is now available

[Pedro Marques]

>>>>> "Bertrand" == Bertrand Buclin <Bertrand.Buclin@ch.att.com> writes:

    Bertrand> Mike, This is a very unfortunate position... During the
    Bertrand> last IETF meeting in Munich, we've been told that all
    Bertrand> the implementations that participated in the July UNH
    Bertrand> Interop testing did support the new addressing scheme
    Bertrand> and EUI-64 (I don't know though if Sun participated in
    Bertrand> that testing).  Based among other things on that
    Bertrand> statement, it was decided to migrate the 6Bone to the
    Bertrand> new addressing scheme

The new addressing scheme has no relation at all with the low 64bits of the
address.

So regardless of the changes in addressing you can still use 48-bit 802.3
link tokens.

    Bertrand>  so that it could be tested in a
    Bertrand> sort of real deployment.

Also, as Bill Manning has pointed out the two addressing formats will
co-exist in the 6bone for a while.

  Pedro.