<div dir="ltr">On 6 April 2013 11:54, Sander Steffann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sander@steffann.nl" target="_blank">sander@steffann.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
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> To be explicit, using a link local completely breaks traceroute,<br>
> since ICMP replies sourced from a link local address must be<br>
> discarded by the next hop, according to RFC 4291 section 2.5.6.<br>
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</div>IIRC the router will reply from the loopback address when the interface doesn't have a global address, right?<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888">Sander<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This was snipped from your message, but from my original message.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
On 6 April 2013 02:38, Mike Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@mikejones.in" target="_blank">mike@mikejones.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
>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? </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div style>Thanks,</div><div style><br></div><div style>- Mike</div></div></div></div>