Is anybody able to explain the purpose of the link local address? Tore, interesting....what device? Wonder why they changed the requirement.
Morgan On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Chuck Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Morgan McLean wrote: > > I ended up setting virtual-link-local-address fe80::1 and an interface > > using fe80::0/10, which I guess is the link local designed range so I > found > > after more googling. > > Actually, you should use /64 not /10. While the whole /10 is reserved > by the RFCs, only /64 is defined for actual link-local usage. I've > found that some hosts have problems communicating with link-locals in > other parts of fe80::/10 outside fe80::/64. > > I usually just define link locals with the subnet-id parts of the > gloabl IPv6 addresses shifted over to the right as the interface-id > part to maintain the fe80::/64 prefix. For example > 2001:db8:f00d:cafe::1/64 would have fe80::db8:f00d:cafe:1/64 as the > corresponding link-local. Note that the double-colon moves to just > after the fe80. > -- Thanks, Morgan _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
