[152659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun May 6 23:40:46 2012
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 22:40:15 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> said:
> > 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.
Well, the prefix length of 10 vs. 64 is hardly relevant when major
routers ignore the part about not forwarding the packets anyway.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
