On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 08:16 +0300, Markku Savela wrote: > > From: Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Possibly, however from Section 2.5.3 "The Loopback Address" it says: > > > > The unicast address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 is called the loopback address. > > It may be used by a node to send an IPv6 packet to itself. It must > > not be assigned to any physical interface. It is treated as having > > link-local scope, and may be thought of as the link-local unicast > > address of a virtual interface (typically called "the loopback > > interface") to an imaginary link that goes nowhere. > > Hmm.. i've missed this. For me loopback address has always had a "node > local" scope, and it seems to work fine logically. >
But it works equally well with it being a link-local addresses belonging to a virtual loopback link. I've updated one implementation to use this new scoping. The change was minimal and actually made things easier. -vlad -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
