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Re: IPv6 Loopback/Point-to-Point address allocation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikolay Shopik)
Mon Sep 11 03:42:40 2017

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To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>, Thomas Bellman <bellman@nsc.liu.se>
From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik+lists@nvcube.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:35:15 +0300
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On 10/09/2017 14:25, Saku Ytti wrote:
> However I don't think market would generally appreciate the
> implications linklocal brings to traceroute, where least bad option
> would be just to originate hop-limit exceeded from loop0, with no
> visibility on actual interface.

rfc5837 would help but it seems market universally ignore it for some 
reason unknown to me (lack of interest and IPv6 adoption?)

We find LL is simpler, operation wise at some cases.

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