[6bone] link local for tunnel endpoints

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:31:08PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Rather silly use of route6d, if you ask me.  Just ask the ISP to configure 
> fe80::1 as the address, or find the address of the neighbor otherwise 
> (e.g., it can be calculated for v6-over-v4 tunnels by yourself).

Rather silly altogether.  As the tunnel is a point-to-point link, it's
not really necessary to know the (inner) IPv6 address of the other
end.

Just encapsulate the packets and send 'em to the (outer) IPv4 address
of the other end.

In Cisco speak: "ipv6 route ::/0 tunnel1"

Gert Doering
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