Karl,

>>> For situations apparently needing the subnet router anycast address,
>>> there is the all-routers-on-link multicast address. Not that it would
>>> normally be needed, because any node on the link has (or can cheaply
>>> build) a list of all routers on the link by just watching the RAs,
>>> something it has to do anyway. A node can then choose a router at
>>> random, or any router based on any criteria it likes. Alternatively an
>>> application can ping the all-routers-on-link multicast address and build
>>> a list of responders. There is no need for the subnet router anycast
>>> address.
>> 
>> A residential gateway router is not going to be able to do this for a 
>> variety of reasons. 
> 
> Could you expand on that? Do you mean on the inside network or the
> outside network And which of the three alternatives (all-routers,
> RA-watching, ping) are not going to work? 

from RFC5969:
   The 6rd link is modeled as an NBMA link similar to other automatic
   IPv6 in IPv4 tunneling mechanisms like [RFC5214], with all 6rd CEs
   and BRs defined as off-link neighbors from one other.  The link-local
   address of a 6rd virtual interface performing the 6rd encapsulation
   would, if needed, be formed as described in Section 3.7 of [RFC4213]. 
   However, no communication using link-local addresses will occur.

a 6rd link doesn't have RAs, and doesn't support link-local addressing.

cheers,
Ole
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