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subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
- Subject: subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
- From: glen.kent at gmail.com (Glen Kent)
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:25:44 +0530
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CAPLq3UPJqwrqeOJornSAEQjNa=b7BOB6r3XZWugHUGyLAsq9Wg@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Sven,
> also various bgp implementations will send the autoconfigure crap ip as the
> next-hop instead of the session ip, resulting in all kinds of crap in your
> route table (if not fixed with nasty hacks on your end ;) which doesn't
> exactly make it easy to figure out which one belongs to which peer
> all the more reason not to use that autoconfigure crap ;)
As per RFC 2545 BGP announces a global address as the next-hop. Its
only in one particular case that it advertises both global and link
local addresses.
So, i guess, BGP is not broken.
Its only RIPng afaik that mandates using a link local address.
Glen