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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Thu, 07 January 2016 18:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)
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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 06:38:51PM +0000, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:39:47 +0000,
> Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
> > 
> >         - a router doesn't join the all-hosts multicast address.
> 
>   Eh?
> 
> 162(niall)4: for x in 1 2; do ping6 -c3 -I en1 ff02::$x; done
> PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) fe80::7a31:c1ff:feec:a2c6%en1 --> ff02::1
> 16 bytes from fe80::7a31:c1ff:feec:a2c6%en1, icmp_seq=0 hlim=64 time=0.141 ms
> 16 bytes from fe80::d6ca:6dff:fe26:e0dd%en1, icmp_seq=0 hlim=255 time=3.437 ms

This obviously is not an IETF Router, as we've learned today that
real existing devices, like "a PC" or "a smartphone" are not IETF Hosts.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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