IPv6 Addressing Question

Sander Steffann sander at steffann.nl
Sat Apr 6 12:54:57 CEST 2013


Hi,

> To be explicit, using a link local completely breaks traceroute,
> since ICMP replies sourced from a link local address must be
> discarded by the next hop, according to RFC 4291 section 2.5.6.

IIRC the router will reply from the loopback address when the interface doesn't have a global address, right?
Sander




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