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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



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