On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:59:04PM +0000, Ben Clifford wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > Can anybody explain why you don't have scoping on site local addresses - > > > if I configure eth0 and eth1 to have the same prefix, on the basis that > > > they are different sites, how do I specify which to use? > > > > Why would you want to do this? > > The site local addressrange contain enough prefixes that theres no need > > to reuse them within a single site. > > I was talking about if the interfaces are in *different* sites. I think > that is how current thinking goes - that each interface can be in a > different site. > > In that case, I may not have a choice about what site addresses are used > in each site - the site admins for each site quite legitimately could > choose the same prefix for their two links which connect to my machine. If > they have to co-ordinate their addressing, then the addressing is no > longer site local.
Site local addresses are local to a site. If you want to leave a site you can't use them. Or you have to co-ordinate the addresses and make it virtually one site. Renumbering IPv6 networks is much easier than with IPv4. Scopes are machine dependend and therefor not routeable. You wouldn't have any benefit compared to link-local addresses. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
