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Re: IPv6 Loopback/Point-to-Point address allocation


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:55:46 -0400


On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:35 AM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik+lists () nvcube net> wrote:

On 10/09/2017 14:25, Saku Ytti wrote:
However I don't think market would generally appreciate the
implications linklocal brings to traceroute, where least bad option
would be just to originate hop-limit exceeded from loop0, with no
visibility on actual interface.

rfc5837 would help but it seems market universally ignore it for some reason unknown to me (lack of interest and IPv6 
adoption?)

We find LL is simpler, operation wise at some cases.


How’s that work out for you on routers with the same MAC address on multiple interfaces when you’re trying to 
troubleshoot ECMP trace routes?

Owen


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