IPv6 Addressing Question

[Mike Jones]

On 6 April 2013 11:54, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

> 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
>
>
This was snipped from your message, but from my original message.

On 6 April 2013 02:38, Mike Jones <mike at mikejones.in> wrote:

> From when the discussion has come up it has been reported that assigning a
> global address to the loopback interface and having ICMP
> generation/management use that is widely supported by cisco/juniper/etc
> gear with 1/2 lines and works out of the box on linux?


Thanks,

- Mike
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