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Re: What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6 link-local packets


From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 08:08:21 +1000


Any address withing FE80::/10 is a link local address, however when
you are constructing a link local address you sent bits [11..64]
to zero.  It's quite common for a specification to only use a subset
of the reserved space which is what happens here.

Mark
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