On Thu, 16 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a given IPv6 Interface on a router, I understand that it is allowed > to configure a global unicast address with an Interface_ID > which is *different* from the Interface_ID of the Link Local Address. > > - is this something that should be discouraged > or instead > - can this be considered as normal practice e.g. for operator > convenience ?
We do the latter. On the other hand, using the same IID is less manual configuring, but (probably) more documenting or remembering. It's the user's choice. I see nothing worth discouraging here. The only thing (from specification point-of-view) here is that if IID is the same, you don't need to perform DAD for global address if you performed it for the link-local address. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
