IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE

Fri Jun 15 10:48:40 UTC 2012

@Daniel +1

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Daniel Roesen <dr at cluenet.de> wrote:

> 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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