On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Alain Durand wrote: [...] > Generally speaking, sevral people were uncomfortable > with the idea of overloading IP addresses with service semantic. > For example, it is common practice in IPv4 to use x.x.x.1/24 or y.y.y.254/24 > for the local router on the link, but there is no protocol that makes > this assumption. People were reluctant to make this step in IPv6.
There is such an address -- the subnet-router anycast address. However, I'm not so sure it works in all the cases, e.g. RFC2461 Redirects, or that it even should.. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
