From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RorfF-0004LH-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:16:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C0A6E07C0; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B59E07B6 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:15:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAGq2G0+4rwD0/2dsb2JhbABCrh6BBoFyAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeHfLc7g36FDII5YwSIO4UEh1mFZ4gvhFc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,550,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="157953235" Received: from 184-175-0-244.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.0.244]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2012 02:15:06 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:13:51 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:13:51 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers? Message-ID: <20120122071351.GB31163@waltdnes.org> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: efd06652-89f8-4c5f-afba-b002ea842521 X-Archives-Hash: 971585b2441b2bb55664f6cb73fa6a35 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. -- Walter Dnes