Thanks Mark, I was not aware of that before. Thanks again, washam
2011/7/15 Mark Smith <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:01:30 +0800 > Washam Fan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't know if it is legal when I manually set a unicast address with >> IID=0. Linux allows that and RFC4291 doesn't explicitly prohibit that. >> I assume it is legal, Right? >> > > That's the subnet router anycast address, so you probably shouldn't use > it without the anycast flag being set when you assign it. Using it as a > conventional unicast address might make it interact > unexpectedly/badly with things like duplicate address detection. > > See RFC5453, "Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers". > > > Regards, > mark. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
