[153875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 15 09:08:23 2012
To: "Nagendra Kumar (naikumar)" <naikumar@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:17 -0000."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:07:20 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:17 -0000, "Nagendra Kumar (naikumar)" said:
> Per my understanding, it is not required to have ipv6 address in loopback
> intf on all P routers inorder to have 6PE work. If I remember it correctly, P
> router will use ::FFFF::<ipv4-addr> while originating ICMPv6 error message.
How the heck is that supposed to work in an all-IPv6 network where you don't
*have* an ipv4-addr? Plus, as Owen noted, leaking those on the wire is
considered bad form.
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