Re: vrrpv3 with global IPv6

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Hi John

John Cruz (johcruz) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, the one of the earlier drafts
> mentioned link-local addresses only. This might be the reason
> why certain implementations support link-local addresses
> only.

Thanks for this. That would be reason enough to explain for
some of the implementations that have been around for a while.
I've heard of recent implementations that do not support global though...
> 
> The current standards supports virtual addresses that have
> global scope.

Can you point to a specific phrase in the RFC where it says so?
I could not find any mention of the word global in the RFC
nor any RFC2119 words relating to scopes of addresses.

Regards,
Seiichi

> 
> Regards
> John
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of
>> Seiichi Kawamura
>> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:42 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: [VRRP] vrrpv3 with global IPv6
>>
> I've been discussing this with a few people this week
> and thought that it was worth asking this list.
> 
> rfc5798 says in section 5.2.9
> 
>    For IPv6, the first address must be the IPv6 link-local address
>    associated with the virtual router.
> 
> It implies that a global address can be associated
> with the virtual router, but some routers
> implement link-local capability only becuase only the
> link-local address is mentioned here.
> 
> The problem is, operators need global scope addresses with
> virtual routers and we have to ask each vendor to
> implement it if they have not already done so. The main
> reason we need this is becausewe need to monitor the address
> from a remote network as we do with IPv4.
> 
> I just joined this list, but can someone
> tell me what was the thinking was  behind not
> mentioning global addresses in this RFC?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Regards,
> Seiichi
> 
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