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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space


From: Oliver <olipro () 8 c 9 b 0 7 4 0 1 0 0 2 ip6 arpa>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:49:16 +0200

On Monday 16 July 2012 21:11:18 you wrote:
The disadvantage to this is the high probability of packet duplication. For
someone worried about ICMP spam on the subnet, I'm surprised you're not
worried about what happens when 2 or more routers copy the same packet
and route both copies on to the end destination. (Lather, rinse, repeat said
duplication for any upstream segments using such tactics as well).


No. 

The all-routers anycast address is resolved and creates a single Layer 2 
neighbor entry - it may change, but there's no packet duplication issue here 
because routing of an individual packet will only ever go to a single host at 
L2, There is a difference between Multicast and Anycast.

Regards,
Oliver


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