Re: Dealing with fe80:xx:, when xx != ::

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:17:23 +0200
    From:        Markku Savela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Message-ID:  <200103161917.VAA07948@burp>

  | I was just looking, what would happen if I kept two lists: one for
  | prefixes and one for id's, and allowed any combination to be used
  | and recognized as own address.

Don't do that.  For autoconfigured addresses it will probably work
(probably) but for assigned addresses, things will break badly.
There's no reason that on a link with prefixes A::/64 abd B::/64
I can't assign A::1 and B::2 to node X, and A::2 and B::1 to node Y.

Your scheme would break that totally.

kre

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