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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 11:23:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeRPrFar_YlgfSAc@Space.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fdeaf3c-af55-44cb-9bb5-9eeac2fe61c1@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote:
> sorry, it could be that I have it on the wrong side.
> 
> If VRRP and starlink like to have that IPv6 LL address with ff:fe inside,
> and always constant, so be it.  There might be some reasons for it to be that
> way.

It's not unusual to standardize IPv6 gateway addresses to have always
well-known fe80:: addresses (like, fe80::1).

There is nothing for an adversary to be gained here.  If you are on-link,
you know, and if you are not, anything fe80:: is of no use to you.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-03 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-12  6:59 J Pan
2024-02-12 14:13 ` Alexandre Petrescu
2024-02-13 17:12   ` J Pan
2024-02-13 17:39     ` Alexandre Petrescu
2024-02-13 17:43       ` Alexandre Petrescu
2024-02-13 17:44     ` Alexandre Petrescu
2024-02-13 18:11       ` Alexandre Petrescu
2024-03-03 10:23         ` Gert Doering [this message]
2024-03-04  8:39           ` Alexandre Petrescu

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