On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Dave Taht said: > > the bridged to a vlan fe80:: addresses are all the same. This strikes me > > as a problem. > > You never reference link-local address by themselves anyway — they are > always referenced with their scope ID for context. So your addresses are > unique after all: > > fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe8b:6e1a%br-lan > fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe8b:6e1a%br-guest > fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe8b:6e1a%br-meshlink1 > fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe8b:6e1a%br-meshlink2 > 1) in a wireshark analysis, the %interface part is lost 2) we have 2^64 possible choices for fe80 addresses. I don't see what having them all be the same buys me. 3) It worries me in the babel routing protocol 4) My bridges are misbehaving over ipv6 in the general case and I'm willing to grasp at straws. > Forgive me if I am stating the obvious or misunderstanding your point. > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com