[141706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 routing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xiaoliang Zhao)
Fri Jun 10 11:32:05 2011
In-Reply-To: <CBA1D475-2579-4601-A974-584C315BB8E3@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:29:57 -0400
From: Xiaoliang Zhao <xleonzhao@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> That sounds like not using link local in the general case and having
> it available as an option in the directly adjacent case.
I'd like to second that. All in all, protocol nexthop has to be
reachable via IGP, otherwise, your v6 routes won't be installed in the
forwarding table. By its name, I would think link local addresses are
meant to be used only on a link, not igp.
Best,
Leon
