Local LAN IP

[Carl Brewer]

> From: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@inria.fr>
> To: Chris B Luck <chris.luck@juno.com>
> cc: 6bone@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Re: Local LAN IP 
> 
>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>    I would like to setup a local lan with IPv6 but I'm not sure on what
>    would be a valid non routable IPv6 IP network address.  Like 192.168.x.x
>    is for IPv4.  Can someone please help me?
> 
> => you can use link-local or site-local addresses. Link-local addresses
> (which are mandatory) are exactly you want but site-local addresses have
> a larger scope (:-): they are routable in your site (ie. you can have
> more than one LAN) but not on the Internet, you should need them for
> the next step.
> 
> Francis.Dupont@inria.fr
> 
> PS: read RFC 2373 section 2.5.8

RFC 2373 is obsolete, RFC 2374 replaces it.

cheers

Carl