Re: using ULA for 'hidden' v6 devices?

[Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:53:18PM +0000, George Bonser wrote:
> > Even if you don't see an advantage to GUA, can you point to a
> > disadvantage?
>
> Just a matter of convenience.  If you have a lot of management IPs or some other IP addresses that are never going to 
> need internet access (an array of 10,000 sensors or something) you don't need to dip into your global allocation to 
> address them.  If it is routed within the organization but never goes to the Internet, ULA is ok.  If it doesn't get 
> routed at all, link local will do fine.   It's good to keep in mind that more things than computers with web browsers 
> are going to get an IP address.

Link-local won't do fine in many cases due to poor application
compatibilty with address scopes.