On 28/06/2015 06:25, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
>     >>> And sorry if I sound like a broken record, but I would like the 
> ability to
>     >>> set up a router-router link with less than a full /64 allocated to 
> it, at
>     >>> least in the ad-hoc case.
> 
> Not sure who said this part.
> 
> My question is: for a router/router link, even if it's really ethernet rather
> than PPP, why wouldn't one use *just* link-local addresses?  

As long as you don't break the rules by using those addresses in ICMP replies.

   Brian

> While I have
> encountered a few OSPFv3 implementations that wouldn't run over link-local
> addresses, the vendors admitted that it was a bug. (That equipment got
> obsoleted due to 512K limit on v4 routing slots before that got fixed though)
> 
> If there something in HNCP that would require router/router links to be
> numbered?   Or is it a case of, one just doesn't *know* that there will never
> be end-hosts on the link.   If one requires manual intervention to allocate
> a prefix longer than /64 to a link, then one could also just say it was a
> router-only link.
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
> 
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