IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE
Daniel Roesen
dr at cluenet.de
Fri Jun 15 10:32:07 UTC 2012
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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