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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:18:48 -0700
On Jul 14, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Jérôme Nicolle wrote:
Le 13/07/12 16:38, -Hammer- a écrit :In the past, with IPv4, we have used reserved or "non-routable"I guess "non-routable IPv4" translates well to "non-routable IPv6", thus putting Link-Local addresses on top of the list. Thought you may use th auto-configured addresses for that purpose, you also may set LLAs to your liking. I use fe80::zone_ID:interface_ID , and set such LLA to every gateways to make routing tables more legible, those ID beeing arbitrary 16bit values.
Given that zone_IDs in my environments consist of terms like: fxp0 en0 eth0 ge-0/0/0.0 etc. How, exactly, would you turn those into part of an IPv6 address?
Any other address class will work well, but I'd rather not use reserved space outside of GUA, ULA our LLA scopes to avoid bug-hunting on poorly implemented IPv6 stacks.
+1 However, I still think GUA is the best, most flexible choice. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space, (continued)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Adrian Bool (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space TJ (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jean-Francois . TremblayING (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space TJ (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jean-Francois . TremblayING (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jeroen Massar (Jul 13)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Oliver (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Laurent GUERBY (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Laurent GUERBY (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space bmanning (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jeroen Massar (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Seth Mattinen (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jeroen Massar (Jul 17)