[141601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Jun 9 13:01:24 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110609.141945.74661869.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:59:13 +0200
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: cra@WPI.EDU, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9 jun 2011, at 14:19, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> It is perfectly possible to use RA *only* for the default router, and
> not announce any prefix at all. This implies a link-local next hop.
Router advertisements always use the router's link local address, you =
can't get a router's global address from this. IPv6 routing protocols =
also pretty much only use link locals, so link local next hop and =
default routes are completely routine.=
