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IPv6 EUI-64 Explained | SLAAC

IPv6 EUI-64 is explained in this video.
When creating link-local address or using SLAAC method, we need to create interface ID part of IPv6 address.
Interface ID is created by IPv6 EUI-64 method. Following steps are required to achieve that.
(1) Take MAC address of the interface
(2) Split MAC into two parts
(3) Insert FFFE between MAC parts
(4) Invert the 7th bit of first MAC part

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