On 05/19/2016 07:58 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
As with IPv4, the LAN side of the router must be on the same subnet as the local network, so you still use 1 address there. No. Router can use link local addresses only. It does not need any
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:19 PM, James Knott
wrote: public address or address in any given prefix.
As I mentioned, it usually uses the link local address, but can use an address from the local network..
Actually, nothing in IPv4 requires this as well. It is more historically grown convention to indicate which addresses are link local. What choice to you have in a broadcast domain, other than an IP address within the subnnet? As I mentioned, the interface can be used on point to point links.
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