[Kea-users] fe80::

[Templin, Fred L]

Thanks Francis. I asked the question on the 6man list regarding whether fe80::
is indeed considered a subnet router anycast address and got two different
answers (yes and no) with no conclusions.

I know that when I assign the address fe80:: to a linux eth interface and then
ping6 to fe80:: from a different linux node, the ping6 succeeds and fe80:: is
used as the destination address of echo requests and the source address
of echo replies. But, last time I tried using fe80:: as the source address of
a DHCPv6 Solicit to the kea server it didn't work.

I will try again when I get a chance but just wanted to check to see if there
is some obvious restriction in kea.

Thanks - Fred


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Dupont [mailto:fdupont at isc.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 9:36 AM
> To: Templin, Fred L <Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com>
> Cc: kea-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: [Kea-users] fe80::
> 
> I don't think Kea does something special with fe80:: but kernels should
> as it is the any router anycast address, so illegal as a source address...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>