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> How could a device have a hardware-embedded IP address, if the hardware vendor doesn't know which ISP you will use?

By putting the hardware part in the second half, and the ISP part in the first half.

You know, like how it works by default.




Most devices randomize the second half by default, using RFC3041 and its successors.


They do, these days.

But then why were you asking "how" a device could have a permanent hardware identifier with its address? Just don't implement those optional RFCs.

And the comment you were replying to didn't say it had to be the entire address, and there's no reason for it to be.




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