[152651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Sun May 6 12:05:22 2012
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 18:04:48 +0200
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 08:25:06AM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote:
> So...operators...what do *you* think the correct
> definition is? And which way would you prefer
> your router vendors to read RFC4291?
I would expect them to follow 2.4, even if the current spec says that
the 54 bits between /10 and /64 are supposed to be set to 0 today.
And indeed, it's the most pragmatic way to deal with that fuzzy spec.
Best regards,
Daniel
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