[6bone] link local for tunnel endpoints

[Todd T. Fries]

Penned by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:41:41AM +0900, we have:
| > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Todd T. Fries wrote:
| > > I use this successfully with my OpenBSD links.  As pointed out to me
| > > several years back by itojun, this is quite fun to setup a v6 tunnel
| > > when the remote tunnel end is running route6d:
| > > 
| > > - ifconfig gif0 tunnel <local v4 address> <remote v4 address>
| > > 
| > > - ifconfig fxp0 inet6 <global v6 address>
| > > 
| > > - route6d
| > > 
| > > - ping6 www.kame.net ;-)
| > > 
| > > 
| > > route6d automatically assigns the link-local address presuming the remote
| > > route6d is advertising via the tunnel.
| > 
| > No, the link local addresses are already assigned.  The only thing route6d 
| > does is to basically create a mapping between the default route and the 
| > link local address of the next-hop router, i.e., discover the link-local 
| > next-hop address.
| 
| 	pekka's description is more correct.

Thanks Pekka and Itojun for clarifying my bad wording.  Yes, Pekka is saying
the meaning I originally intended to convey...
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