Mark Tinka [2016-05-27 23:57 +0200] : > On 27/May/16 21:02, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > This is fine, but why not use link-local for the VPN links? That's > > the primary reason for them. > > That's really not good advice. > > I'd caution against using link-local addresses for any type of > service. > > Link-local addresses are used for host-to-host communications on the > same Layer 2 segment. Routers will not forward traffic with link-local > addresses. > > Besides, link-local addresses are automatically created. They cannot > be guaranteed to be unique anymore than they can be guaranteed to be > constant.
Thanks for repeating that. That's how I understood it as a novice too.
:-) And that's why I thought I should not go for them. Because I don't
have many GUAs available, I thought I should go for ULAs then.
Niklaas
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