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Re: IPv6 addressing for core network


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:47:31 +0100

On 9 feb 2011, at 11:16, sthaug () nethelp no wrote:

If you can get router ICMP handling changed such that the ICMP packet
generated by traceroute is sent from the loopback address, we might
be able to do without global scope addresses on router-to-router
interfaces. But until then...

I'm pretty sure this is standard behavior for routers, and especially Cisco routers. However, I can't find any 
documentation for this real quick, either in an RFC or Cisco documentation.

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