Thanks Phil and Michael - excellent feedback as always! On 27/01/2010, at 11:11 PM, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 27/01/10 12:06, Ben Dale wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I don't seem to be able to find a definitive answer to this one >> either in Juniper's docs, or the very dry RFCs I've been ploughing >> through but: >> >> I have an SRX (9.6) running a small IPv6 network (a tunnel and a /48 >> provided by HE). I have statically allocated a /64 from the /48 to a >> vlan interface and enabled RA. Host machines (OSX 10.6.2) on that >> VLAN are discovering addresses from that range correctly, and traffic >> is being forwarded as expected, but the address they learn for their >> router is actually the link-local address on the SRX vlan interface, >> rather than the static address that I would expect. > > That's normal. Since communication with a router is via the local link, the > "next hop" of an RA is the link-local address. > > It's perfectly possible (if confusing) for a router to not have an address > within the prefix, but still advertise it. > > This puzzles people in Cisco-land with HSRPv6, where the address which is > floated is also link-local. > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
