[c-nsp] IPv6 subnets for point-to-point links

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Sun May 8 12:45:34 EDT 2005


On Sun, 8 May 2005 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> In particular, subnet-router anycast address on /127 is ambiguous on a
>> link with two routers and can lead to serious problems.
>
> The question is, why would you *want* anycast on point to point links?
> According to RFC 3513,

Sure, you don't really need it, but the problem is that it's 
automatically implemented for all the interfaces and all the prefix 
lengths; you don't need to configure it, and you can't turn it off.

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