On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:56:05AM +0200, mohamed Osama Saad Abo sree wrote: > I was just wondering , while I'm planning my network to support 6PE/6VPE > why should i assign an IPv6 for Loopbacks? > > Maybe it's needed for Point-Point links or external interfaces between my > peers, but anyone here know why i should assign IPv6 for all my Routers > inside my ISP if we will run PE/6VPE not dual stack.
Otherwise the intermediate P devices do not have an address to source ICMPv6 "hop count exceeded" error replies => traceroute doesn't work properly. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: d...@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
