Need help with MAC to IPv6 Address conversion

I'm currently taking a CIS course at my community college and I'm completely stuck in one of the lab exercises. It's in chapter 10. I've copied the text of what it is asking for. I have the Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 book, but the way they described doing this in the book just confused me. I understand a little about converting the MAC Address, but the part about the unique local unicast on the fd00::/8 network is throwing me off. Subnetting in general seems to be a real hangup for me for some reason. If it would take too much time to explain, could someone point me in the direction of a good tutorial? Sometimes I've found I learn better when not going off the examples the book gives.

The MAC addresses of three computers on your network are listed in Table 10-4. Using these MAC addresses to form interface IDs, create three unique local unicast addresses on the fd00::/8 network and enter them into the table.
Table 10-4
MAC Addresses and IPv6 Addresses

Computer

MAC Address

IPv6 Address

SERVERA

12-AA-BC-32-23-12

SERVERB

12-AA-BC-32-23-11

SERVERC

00-15-5D-01-01-C1

I hope I've posted this in the correct forum. My apologies if it is not.

Sincerely,
Randall

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Comments

Alceo

Hope it helps:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/100566/understanding-ipv6-eui-64-bit-address

Jon_Cisco

Follow the link above for a full description.
Basically IPv6 uses 64 netowrk bits and 64 host bits. They came up with a method of automatically configuring a unique local address buy using the machines existing mac address as part of the formula to generate the host portion.

Stryker395

Thanks for the link. I have a better understanding of how to get the addresses now.