DHCPv6 Question

Bjørn Mork bjorn at mork.no
Tue Jan 10 22:23:51 UTC 2012


Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> writes:

> Brian Hamacher wrote:
>
>> If I look through my Router Advertisments I do see the FE80 address
>> that should be getting set as the default gateway.
>
> Just a thought, and I'm very much still fumbling in the dark on IPv6
> myself, but will a device accept an FE80 address as a router?

Sure.  Why not?  Your gateway is required to be on your local link by
definition.

> By definition an FE80 address is link local, and it's quite possible
> to make an assumption that if a device doesn't use a routable address,
> then its' not a good candidate as a router.

Not at all. It's as good as any.  In fact it's better than a global
address, since you are guaranteed that it didn't reach you via any
router. 


Bjørn



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