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Re: New Version Notification for draft-petrescu-6man-ll-prefix-len-17.txt

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Thu, 09 May 2019 17:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-petrescu-6man-ll-prefix-len-17.txt
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Alexandre Petrescu wrote on 09/05/2019 17:54:
> Why OSPF(v3) for IPv6 does not use an IPv6 address in the neighbor ID, 
> and why does it use an IPv4 address instead?

both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 use a 32-bit instance ID, which is traditionally 
represented as an ipv4 address.  It's not actually an ipv4 address.

Nick

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