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RE: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE
From: "Nagendra Kumar (naikumar)" <naikumar () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:17 +0000
Hi, Per my understanding, it is not required to have ipv6 address in loopback intf on all P routers inorder to have 6PE work. If I remember it correctly, P router will use ::FFFF::<ipv4-addr> while originating ICMPv6 error message. -Nagendra -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Roesen [mailto:dr () cluenet de] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:02 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:56:05AM +0200, mohamed Osama Saad Abo sree wrote:
I was just wondering , while I'm planning my network to support 6PE/6VPE why should i assign an IPv6 for Loopbacks? Maybe it's needed for Point-Point links or external interfaces between my peers, but anyone here know why i should assign IPv6 for all my Routers inside my ISP if we will run PE/6VPE not dual stack.
Otherwise the intermediate P devices do not have an address to source ICMPv6 "hop count exceeded" error replies => traceroute doesn't work properly. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr () cluenet de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
Current thread:
- IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE mohamed Osama Saad Abo sree (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Daniel Roesen (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE james jones (Jun 15)
- RE: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Nagendra Kumar (naikumar) (Jun 15)
- RE: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE adam vitkovsky (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE mohamed Osama Saad Abo sree (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Owen DeLong (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Daniel Roesen (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Robert McKay (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Owen DeLong (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE Daniel Roesen (Jun 15)
- Re: IPv6 Lo. for 6PE/6VPE valdis . kletnieks (Jun 15)