IPv6 network policies

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sun Apr 11 01:41:49 CEST 2010


On 2010-04-11 11:12, Mark Smith wrote:
...
> Doesn't the RFC4861 mandate that i.e.
> 
>    point-to-point - a link that connects exactly two interfaces.  A
>                     point-to-point link is assumed to have multicast
>                     capability and a link-local address.
> 
> 
> I can't find any text that treats P2P links as a special case and says
> you don't need to do ND NS/NA.

E.g., when using PPP, all IP6CP [RFC5072] does is negotiate an
interface identifier for each end. After that you create a link-local
address at each end and then treat the Pt2Pt link just like any other
link to get a global address. Nothing special.

  Brian


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