Re: [OSPF] [IPv6 SR] Regarding 128 bits IPv6 address in Segment List of SRH

Mark,
On 10/02/2017 08:26, Mark Smith wrote:
> On 10 Feb. 2017 03:02, "Veerendranatha Reddy Vallem" <
> veerendranatharv@huawei.com> wrote:
...
>> If Link local address is Link local, how we can use this address in SRH header, 
>> since IPv6 destination address should not be link local address as per
>> IPv6 protocol.
> 
> I'd be curious where you might have got that idea from.
> LL addresses are perfectly fine as destination addresses, including for
> application traffic. They're even preferred over global and ULA addresses
> by default when there is a choice from a set.

Right, but if an SR header is travelling off-link, which I think must often
be the case, it would be doubleplus ungood to include a LL address, which is
meaningless off-link. So probably using a LL address in SRH needs to be
strictly limited.

   Brian

> Many of the advantages of LLs for end-user applications would also apply to
> network applications such as SR.
> 
> "How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications"
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00
> 
> Regards,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> If Adj-Sid is global ipv6 address, means we need to consider “global
> ipv6 interface address” of the neighbor on the link?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Veerendranath
> 
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