Hi,

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:01:30 +0800
Washam Fan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if it is legal when I manually set a unicast address with
> IID=0. Linux allows that and RFC4291 doesn't explicitly prohibit that.
> I assume it is legal, Right?
> 

That's the subnet router anycast address, so you probably shouldn't use
it without the anycast flag being set when you assign it. Using it as a
conventional unicast address might make it interact
unexpectedly/badly with things like duplicate address detection. 

See RFC5453, "Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers".


Regards,
mark.
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