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

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed. Other reasons to avoid using LL addresses unless necessary:
> What if the MAC address on the server changes?

It won't.  It's an embedded device with a hard-wired MAC that the user
can't change.

> What if your network grows to have hundreds of clients?

Then people probably won't be using L-L addresses.  However, for a
network that consists of 6 small devices all living inside a cabinet
with no router, DHCP server, or connection to the outside workd, L-L
is great.

> Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
> DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet
> segment?

That bit I don't understand.  It's no worse that ARP, and we seem to
live with that quite easily.

> LL addresses are very useful for diagnostic and investigation
> purposes, of course.

Indeed, and that's what I'm doing.

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