> The standard states that the first address in VRRP v3 IPv6 needs to be > an IPv6 link-local address. > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5798 yup. but as saku says, both xr and junos create the link local automagically. and that is what i had in a differen pop. so i mistakenly assumed xe would do the dirty. my error. randy