Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

[Walter Dnes]

I think it comes down to a question of whether you're running a few
machines at home or small office, versus a large multinational outfit
with tens of thousands of machines.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 09:27:29AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote

> Thinking about it, in your device's case, I suspect you won't want
> link-local scope to be your only IPv6 address; you'll want either a
> ULA address or a global-scope address. Otherwise, clients not on the
> local Ethernet segment won't be able to communicate with it, period;
> the user of your device would need a proxy sitting on the segment.

  Possibly important for large installations, but not in the case of the
average home user.  I don't care if I buy a Christmas tree with separate
addresses for each light bulb, in the end, I only have one physical wire
from my ISP to my home.  So it all has to be funnelled through that one
router/gateway.

> You could use LL addresses to bootstrap, too, but
> you come back to the browser support issue you've run into.

  How many machines connect directly to the internet anyways?  Cable or
fibre internet absolutely requires a modem/gateway anyways, and most
ADSL users connect via ADSL modems.  They serve as "proxies" under V4
and can do so under V6.  While ADSL PPPOE can be handled directly by
your machine, it uses up some of your CPU cycles, and clutters up
iptables logfiles.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>