wido commented on pull request #4948: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/4948#issuecomment-828219748
> @rhtyd In case of ipv6 you will always have link-local address even if routable ipv6 is not configured. In screenshot I do not see it and its misleading. As you wrote all ip addresses must be presented. > > Ignore- I mis understood its not doable and user must understand that ipv6 will have link-local. > Configuring it manually for presentation in ui is nonsense. I know it has been merged now, but let me add this: The link-local address is a non-routable address which can't be used from the outside world. Nor does CloudStack know what it is allthough it could calculate the address based on the MAC. CloudStack is aimed at routable addresses as that's what we use. Technically servers can communicate with each other over Link-Local as long as they are in the same L2 domain, but it's not the use-case which is used very much. Most services use unicast addresses for the communication. LL with IPv6 is mainly used for Router Advertisements, Neighbor Discovery, etc, etc. I would not say it's very useful to display the LL addresses in the UI. In addition: The API does not return those. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
