At 6:12 AM +0000 2/12/02, Ramakrishnan wrote: >Q) if we have any virtual link (ex. loopback) it will have a loopback address. Other >than that, should we need to have any link local address for that interface. ?
Ramakrishnan, The loopback link does not require a link-local address. If you have virtual links that can have more than one node attached (e.g., some people refer to an IP tunnel as a virtual link), those links will need link-local addresses for the (virtually) attached nodes. Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
