On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:50:40PM +0100, Aurilien wrote: > Hi, > > In hostname.if(5), two IPv6 addresses are used in a sample: > > inet6 alias fec0::1 64 > inet6 alias fec0::2 64 anycast > > The class fec0::/10 refers to the site-local prefix which has been > deprecated in September 2004. > > It's replaced by unique local addresses (fc00::/7 - RFC 4193). The sample > should be: > > inet6 alias fd00::1 64 > inet6 alias fd00::2 64 anycast >
i asked claudio about this. with his permission, i'm forwarding his answer: site-local addresses are deprecated but you can still use them on a interface. Unique local addresses more or less replaced them. I don't like to use fd00::1 and fd00::2 because per RFC 4193 the first 48bit of the address should be created per site. Section 3.2: The allocation of Global IDs is pseudo-random [RANDOM]. They MUST NOT be assigned sequentially or with well-known numbers. This is to ensure that there is not any relationship between allocations and to help clarify that these prefixes are not intended to be routed globally. Specifically, these prefixes are not designed to aggregate. So in the end either solution is not perfect at the moment I would keep the example as is.
