[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Aug 27 06:28:40 EDT 2009


Daniel Verlouw wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 11:20 +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
>> I don't understand; all link-local IPs are
>>
>> fe80::/64
> 
> link local unicast range is FE80::/10
> 
>    --Daniel.
> 

Hmm. So in theory you can configure a router to advertise 
fe80:something::/64 as the link prefix?

Ok; why would you want to? Link-local prefixes are still link-local, it 
just requires an extra link of config to make bits 11-64 the same as the 
unicast prefix.


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