We will continue to monitor the GitHub issue trackers as well, but want to encourage all users to take advantage of the increased community presence on the developer portal. If you want to create a whole IPv6 address from a MAC (and a given prefix), you could use the excellent ipv6calc tool by Peter Bieringer. More contemporary issues however may still be relevant and hence are more appropriate to prioritize.įor those users who remain interested in resolution of a reported issue that was closed, we are encouraging usage of our developer portal forums and commercial support portal as the preferred avenues to receive support. Both methods use MAC addresses to identify.
Our belief is that issues which have remained unresolved and unaltered for extended periods of time are less likely to continue to pose a significant problem to the user than when they were originally filed. In the current internet era, most devices are connected physically with Ethernet cables or wirelessly with Wi-Fi. The rightmost bit in your byte will represent 20 (two raised to the zero power) and each byte as you go left will represent the number 2 raised to a.
In an effort to improve our customer support experience and in recognition that our support backlog on GitHub has historically exceeded the capacity of our engineering team, we have taken the difficult decision to focus on the most contemporary issues reported and to close all others without confirmation of resolution.