According to RFC4291, it is not link-local address, but cisco and BSD think of
it as link-local address.
From: Fred Baker
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:42 PM
To: Yu Hua bing
Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Question about the link-local addresses
On Mar 4, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Yu Hua bing wrote:
>RFC4291
> Link-Local addresses are for use on a single link. Link-Local
> addresses have the following format:
| 10 |
| bits | 54 bits | 64 bits |
+----------+-------------------------+----------------------------+
|1111111010| 0 | interface ID |
+----------+-------------------------+----------------------------+
I have a question: If the front 10 bits of one IPv6 address is FE80 and the
middle 54 bits is not zero, is it link-local address?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.5.6
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