[systemd-devel] networkd : ipv6 prefix delegation

Kevin P. Fleming kevin at km6g.us
Tue Sep 6 10:47:07 UTC 2022


On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 1:45 PM Arian van Putten
<arian.vanputten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just thinking out loud here but aren't RA messages are sent as link local multicast messages? How can it send them if you disable link local addressing?

Yes, this. There's no benefit to disabling link-local addressing, and
doing so can definitely break other IPv6 features. I've never seen an
explicitly-configured link-local address before, but I'd be really
surprised if it worked as a replacement for the
automatically-generated link-local address.


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