[153867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Fri Jun 15 06:32:28 2012
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:32:07 +0200
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:56:05AM +0200, mohamed Osama Saad Abo sree wrote:
> I was just wondering , while I'm planning my network to support 6PE/6VPE
> why should i assign an IPv6 for Loopbacks?
>
> Maybe it's needed for Point-Point links or external interfaces between my
> peers, but anyone here know why i should assign IPv6 for all my Routers
> inside my ISP if we will run PE/6VPE not dual stack.
Otherwise the intermediate P devices do not have an address to source
ICMPv6 "hop count exceeded" error replies => traceroute doesn't work
properly.
Best regards,
Daniel
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