[152657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sun May 6 19:38:56 2012
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:10 -1000."
<m24nrtapud.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 09:38:06 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <m24nrtapud.wl%randy@psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
> > Any address withing FE80::/10 is a link local address
>
> said with great authority. shame the rfc does not do the same. matt
> points out a spec and implementation problem.
>
> randy
Zero is there to remove the "what do I set these bits to" problem
for auto configuration when you have the standard /64 net/host
split. The FE80::/10 is still clearly shown in 2.5.6 as a seperate
group of bits.
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