Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-21 Thread Tore Anderson
* Morgan McLean So from doing some googling, I see link local addresses being required for any sort of multicast usage under ipv6? What do I need to do here? I removed the eui-64, that was in there while I was trying to get it to commit. IIRC you need another address fe80::x/64 on that

Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-21 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Morgan McLean wrote: I ended up setting virtual-link-local-address fe80::1 and an interface using fe80::0/10, which I guess is the link local designed range so I found after more googling. Actually, you should use /64 not /10. While the whole /10 is

Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-21 Thread Morgan McLean
Is anybody able to explain the purpose of the link local address? Tore, interestingwhat device? Wonder why they changed the requirement. Morgan On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Morgan McLean wrote: I ended up

Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-21 Thread Brandon Ross
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Morgan McLean wrote: Is anybody able to explain the purpose of the link local address? I know several dozen people who can explain the purpose of link-local. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipv6+link+local -- Brandon Ross Yahoo AIM:

Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-21 Thread Morgan McLean
Thanks, that was extremely helpful, its all clear for me now! Anyway, all I found before your lovely link was that it was required for neighbor discovery protocol. Even after looking into it, I still don't understand why its a requirement. Thank you Chuck and Tore. Morgan On Fri, Jun 21, 2013

[j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-20 Thread Morgan McLean
So from doing some googling, I see link local addresses being required for any sort of multicast usage under ipv6? What do I need to do here? I removed the eui-64, that was in there while I was trying to get it to commit. [edit interfaces irb unit 170 family inet6] + address

Re: [j-nsp] Link local address errors when committing VRRP for inet6

2013-06-20 Thread Morgan McLean
I ended up setting virtual-link-local-address fe80::1 and an interface using fe80::0/10, which I guess is the link local designed range so I found after more googling. What exactly is the purpose of this? I'll use /64's for all the ipv6 interfaces I'll have to configure this with, not /10, that