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Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked

To: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 2.4.21+ - IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling b0rked
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:29:11 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxx, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <200307151446.SAA08540@dub.inr.ac.ru>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > "resolve" next-hops.  I.e., the requirement that the users/protocols will
> > give you non-final nexthop information which you have to "resolve" to get
> > the final nexthop (e.g. a global address -> a link-local address 
> > obtained using Neighbor Discovery).
> 
> No way to resolve exists, unless it already embedded to corresponding
> protocol.

Assume you're a host on a link with prefix 3FFE:FFFF:A:B::/64.  The router 
is the one with interface ID one.

What happens when you do "ping6 3FFE:FFFF:A:B::1" ? Seems to resolve a 
link-local address for the router just fine.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings


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