[147047] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McCall, Gabriel)
Wed Nov 30 23:35:05 2011
From: "McCall, Gabriel" <Gabriel.McCall@thyssenkrupp.com>
To: Mike Jones <mike@mikejones.in>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:33:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAAAas8Hu5HLVjf+Xx9edF_J_fTm8JmSFnGsSQJVb405y3htr=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well, traceroutes and other ICMP functions would break. It is occasionally =
useful to be able to address a specific router interface from someplace oth=
er than its connected peer.
-Gabriel
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Jones [mailto:mike@mikejones.in]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:16 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: a=
re they possible in DOCSIS networks?)
...
Am I a complete idiot missing some obvious major issues with link locals, o=
r am i just the only one not thinking IPv4-think? Opinions?
:)
- Mike
