[141606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Thu Jun 9 13:27:31 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DF10101.4010407@foobar.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:26:11 -0400
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 17:59, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>
>> can't get a router's global address from this. IPv6 routing protocols
>> also pretty much only use link locals
>
> Really? =A0I guess my eyes must be playing tricks on me then.
>
> Nick
What OS?
The system could determine the global address for the prefix provided
with a little work, but the implementation for RA is to set the
default route to the link-local address. This is the behavior on
Windows and Linux.
--=20
Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
http://www.networkmaine.net/
