What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6 link-local packets

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Sun May 6 16:04:48 UTC 2012


On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 08:25:06AM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote:
> So...operators...what do *you* think the correct
> definition is?  And which way would you prefer
> your router vendors to read RFC4291?

I would expect them to follow 2.4, even if the current spec says that
the 54 bits between /10 and /64 are supposed to be set to 0 today.
And indeed, it's the most pragmatic way to deal with that fuzzy spec.


Best regards,
Daniel

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