link-local

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On OS X 10.10.4 if you set IPv6 to link-local this doesn't change IPv4 at all.

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On OS X 10.10.4 if you set IPv6 to link-local this doesn't change IPv4 at all.

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On OS X 10.10.4 if you set IPv6 to link-local this doesn't change IPv4 at all.

It is compiled in the kernel, but interfaces don't get an IPv6 link-local address if you don't explicitely say so.

You can't use link-local addresses without extra gyrations in socket API (scope id) so they cannot be usefully passed to normal apps.

There's.local [1] which is reserved for link-local domain names by RFC 6762.

They are subdivided, since some addresses are link-local, some are multicast, etc.

You can have that in IPv6 too, with link-local addresses (fe80::/64).

Same with IPv6 link-local addressing, it used to be possible to disable it completely, now that's no longer possible because they've dumbed down the UI.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure WebRTC renders this useless because it leaks all the IPv6 addresses, including link-local ones containing the hardware MAC address.

And link-local disables IPv6 for all intents and purposes.

(It's not the link-local address; it starts with 2605:e000, which is in the Time-Warner block) 2.

We have known for a while that L2 networks do not scale very well but have been restricted by the need to support link-local communications due to legacy applications.

Apple has done amazing things for IPv6 on the client side; first defaulting to IPv6 for link-local traffic, and then being an early adopter of Happy Eyeballs and putting relatively good IPv6 support in their AirPorts.

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When you enable IPv6, you get a link-local address, send router solicitations and process router advertisements ("IPv6 autoconfiguration").

On 10.9.5 setting the wifi connection's IPv6 setting to "Link-local only" causes me to be unable to ping6 other machines but IPv4 is unaffected.

You don't need those craptastic "Client Software" apps to configure the IP address (I'm looking at you Netgear), because every IPv6 device comes with it's only link-local IPv6 address, ready to go.

Wait, when you said "...the router (last hop before your server) sets up a route for that entire /48 to the link-local address of your server." Was "your server" the ISP's server, or the customer's server?