Link-local and ACLs

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Mon Jul 24 19:58:48 CEST 2017


Hi,
j
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:46:04PM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
> In practice Neighbor Discovery, and other critical protocols, need
> link-local addresses to talk to other link-local addresses and some
> multicast addresses.
> 
> Also, in theory a link-local address could talk to a GUA or ULA address on
> the same link. However, in practices does this really happen? If it does
> happen in practice what are circumstances?

"neighbor discovery"...

http://netcerts.net/ipv6-neighbor-discovery-protocol-ndp/

has details on "from what address to what address" for all the ICMPv6
types.

Gert Doering
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