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From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Link addressing (was: Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification 
Stability with IPv6)
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:46:26 +0100 (CET)

> The question I've wondered a bit about is what is the common
> operational or implementation practice when configuring manual
> addresses on routers.
> 
> For people who configure static addresses on router interfaces, do
> they actively switch SLAAC off for either individual prefixes, or
> for the whole interface?

Answering only for myself, obviously:

- We use static /124 addresses on our router-router links, which means
we're pretty darn sure that SLAAC won't be working for anything other
than the link local address. We may switch to /127.
- Additionally, Juniper routers need explicit configuration to turn on
RA. We definitely don't configure this on our router-router links.
- Additionally, we're planning to explicitly turn off SLAAC on Cisco
routers for our router-router links.

> Alternatively, if SLAAC is left enabled for the LL prefix, then
> there is likely to now be two LLs on the interface. Static
> configuration of an LL address would usually indicate preference for
> its use for all LL traffic over the SLAAC LL address, which may be a
> problem, because IIRC, RFC6724 doesn't place any preference for
> static addresses over SLAAC addresses.

The static IPv6 addresses that we configure on router-router links are
*not* link local. Thus we don't have two link local addresses on the
interfaces.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116

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