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

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sun May 8 13:52:03 EDT 2005


> > 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.

That isn't necessarily the case. On our Juniper routers, running mostly
7.0R2.7, I get no replies when pinging the anycast address of our /126
links. I'm very happy with this situation.

(This no longer has anything to do with Cisco - maybe another list would
be more appropriate.)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


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