Hi,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:23:39PM +0100, Heath Jones wrote:
> > Sure it will.  But it's not permitted to use that as a source address
> > for anything that's not link-local.
> 
> Ok, cool.
> 
> I've done some reading and this is my take on it..
> Is it that link-local addresses are used for ND & some routing
> protocols use ND mechanisms to check adjacencies? Apart from that,
> there doesnt appear to be a (real) requirement for them in a
> router-router p2p enviroment..?

OSPFv3 (and, I'd assume, EIGRP for IPv6) communicate via link-local 
addresses.  So if you don't have them, these IGPs will fail...

gert

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