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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:51:34 +0530
From:      =?unknown-8bit?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktuClgeCkleCljeCk?= =?unknown-8bit?Q?=B2?= Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: neighbor discovery problem
Message-ID:  <20080812162134.GA2652@chateau.d.lf>
In-Reply-To: <E1KSswq-000AcK-Bz@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <6338C16505B9465ED4A9CA76@andromede.in.absolight.net> <E1KSswq-000AcK-Bz@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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In <E1KSswq-000AcK-Bz@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>, Pete French wrote:
>> The network is pretty simple,
>>
>> gateway :
>> em0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         options=3Db<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>>         inet6 fe80::207:e9ff:fe0e:dead%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1=20
>>         inet6 2a01:678:1:443:: prefixlen 64=20
>>         inet6 2a01:678:100:: prefixlen 48=20
>
>Hmmm, are machine numbers of all zeroes legal in IPv6 ? I would
>configure those as '2a01:678:1:443::1' and '2a01:678:100::1' if
>I were you. All zeroes as a machine number is certainly a no-no in
>IPv4, and I wouldn't use it in IPv6 either. I have no idea if it's
>actually a problem, but it gives me a bad feeling....

Yes, it is legal, and such address, with subnet prefix + all zeroes in the=
=20
host identifier (or interface identifier) is known as subnet-router anycast=
=20
address. For further information, check out RFC 4291, Section 2.6.1[1].

References:
[1] - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.6.1

Ashish Shukla
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