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Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again?
From: Dennis Bohn <bohn () adelphi edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 18:27:06 -0500
In addition, IPv6 has link local addresses. This one seemingly insignificant detail causes so much code churn and is probably responsible for 10 years of the IPv6 drag.
AFAICT, Cisco V6 HSRP (mentioning that brand only because it caused me to try to figure something out, a coincidence that this is in reply to Jakob from Cisco but is based on what he wrote) relies on Link Local addresses. I didn't understand why link locals should be there in the first place seemed klugey and have googled, looked at rfcs and tried to understand why link local addresses were baked into V6. The only thing I found was that it enabled interfaces on point to point links to be unaddressed in V6. (To save address space!??) Can anyone point me in a direction to understand the reasoning for link local addressing? dennis
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- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again?, (continued)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Mark Andrews (Mar 07)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Baldur Norddahl (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? William Herrin (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Bob Evans (Mar 06)
- RE: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Dennis Burgess (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Seth Mattinen (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Bob Evans (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Mark Andrews (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? William Herrin (Mar 06)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Dennis Bohn (Mar 07)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? valdis . kletnieks (Mar 07)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Mike Jones (Mar 07)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Baldur Norddahl (Mar 08)
- Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again? Baldur Norddahl (Mar 08)