>> Michel Py wrote:
>> Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT
>> have any 6to4 pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated).

> Pekka Savola wrote:
> There is no such statement anywhere that I know of. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong.  Hosts indeed have 6to4 pseudo-interfaces.

> Brian Carpenter wrote:
> I'm confused. When one is inside the border at which an RFC
> 3056 router is placed, 6to4 addresses are exactly like any
> other native IPv6 address. No host inside that border should
> have a 6to4 pseudo-interface.

Exactly. So the requirements for a site to use 2002:0A00::/24 as a
"private" address are no different than those for 6to4 site to use the
border router's v4 address as the 6to4 address. In other words, a site
that would want to use 2002:0A00::/24 as a private addressing scheme is
just like any regular 6to4 site except that it does not have the 6to4
gateway.


>> No host inside that border should have a 6to4
>> pseudo-interface.

> But in reality, they do.  Some implementations even
> enable it automatically.

Again, this is my very point: using 2002:0A00::/24 as a "private"
address will _enforce_ the need to disable these interfaces (because if
they're enabled they blackhole the traffic and nothing works), which is
a feature not a bug for a private network.

Michel.


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