On 6 April 2013 11:54, Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > To be explicit, using a link local completely breaks traceroute, > > since ICMP replies sourced from a link local address must be > > discarded by the next hop, according to RFC 4291 section 2.5.6. > > IIRC the router will reply from the loopback address when the interface > doesn't have a global address, right? > Sander > > This was snipped from your message, but from my original message.
On 6 April 2013 02:38, Mike Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > From when the discussion has come up it has been reported that assigning a > global address to the loopback interface and having ICMP > generation/management use that is widely supported by cisco/juniper/etc > gear with 1/2 lines and works out of the box on linux? Thanks, - Mike
