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What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6 link-local packets
- Subject: What is a link-local address?? WAS: Re: JUNOS forwards IPv6 link-local packets
- From: marka at isc.org (Mark Andrews)
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 08:08:21 +1000
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 May 2012 08:25:06 MST." <CAEmG1=q6aa_33L29fjf7M4S_TQA4ydUT2yo_X22d3q+xFOfSMg@mail.gmail.com>
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Any address withing FE80::/10 is a link local address, however when
you are constructing a link local address you sent bits [11..64]
to zero. It's quite common for a specification to only use a subset
of the reserved space which is what happens here.
Mark
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