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Local LAN IP
- Subject: Local LAN IP
- From: [email protected] (Carl Brewer)
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 09:09:38 +1000 (EST)
> From: Francis Dupont <[email protected]>
> To: Chris B Luck <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Local LAN IP
>
> In your previous mail you wrote:
>
> I would like to setup a local lan with IPv6 but I'm not sure on what
> would be a valid non routable IPv6 IP network address. Like 192.168.x.x
> is for IPv4. Can someone please help me?
>
> => you can use link-local or site-local addresses. Link-local addresses
> (which are mandatory) are exactly you want but site-local addresses have
> a larger scope (:-): they are routable in your site (ie. you can have
> more than one LAN) but not on the Internet, you should need them for
> the next step.
>
> [email protected]
>
> PS: read RFC 2373 section 2.5.8
RFC 2373 is obsolete, RFC 2374 replaces it.
cheers
Carl