IPv6 routing protocols

Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch at muada.com
Fri Jun 10 10:03:33 UTC 2011


On 9 jun 2011, at 19:41, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Iljitsch noted: "IPv6 routing protocols also pretty much only use link locals".  This is not true in the general case.

So which routing protocols communicate using global addresses then?

As far as I know only BGP but BGP runs over TCP so it's different from all other routing protocols. And it still carries link local next hop addresses.



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