Re: about violation of standards

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Tue, 23 April 2019 07:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: about violation of standards
From: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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> Some functions in the router are complex to implement because same value for a link local address appears on multiple interfaces. 

Like what?

> It would be useful to be able to encode an abstract interface ID somewhere in the /64. Legacy 00 would mean unspecified...

Sounds like you need subnet-id election?

Ole