IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

[Adam Thompson <athompson () merlin mb ca>]

Hey, just checking as I don’t have any Cisco or Extreme or Juniper gear running IS-IS to verify myself…

On current Arista (7280SR2K) and older Brocade (MLXe) routers, the IPv6 next-hop address in IS-IS seems to always be 
the link-local address of the neighbour, instead of any manually-assigned address on the interface. I believe this is 
*not* the case with Cisco, in particular.  Not sure about other vendors, I don’t have any handy that can run IS-IS.  I 
don’t appear to have any knobs to control this behaviour, and haven’t found anything related in the docs.

Can anyone confirm that Cisco or other vendors does/do not do this (prefer LLA over GUA)?

Thanks,
-Adam

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