Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

2024-02-13 Thread J Pan via Starlink
yes, the mac for fe80::200:5eff:fe00:101 is 00:00:5e:00:01:01 (a virtual mac used by the virtual router redundancy protocol commonly used by service providers in point-of-presence?) -- J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), p...@uvic.ca, Web.UVic.CA/~pan On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 6:14 AM Ale

Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

2024-02-13 Thread Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink
Le 13/02/2024 à 18:12, J Pan a écrit : yes, the mac for fe80::200:5eff:fe00:101 is 00:00:5e:00:01:01 (a virtual mac used by the virtual router redundancy protocol commonly used by service providers in point-of-presence?) Do you mean that VRRP requires the use of that MAC address? In that case

Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

2024-02-13 Thread Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink
or maybe the VRRP people dont want that address to be opaque at all, I dont know. Le 13/02/2024 à 18:39, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink a écrit : Le 13/02/2024 à 18:12, J Pan a écrit : yes, the mac for fe80::200:5eff:fe00:101 is 00:00:5e:00:01:01 (a virtual mac used by the virtual router re

Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

2024-02-13 Thread Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink
Le 13/02/2024 à 18:12, J Pan a écrit : yes, the mac for fe80::200:5eff:fe00:101 is 00:00:5e:00:01:01 (a virtual mac used by the virtual router redundancy protocol commonly used by service providers in point-of-presence?) maybe they should rather use the IPv6 anycast concept? Alex -- J Pan,

Re: [Starlink] Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

2024-02-13 Thread Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink
sorry, it could be that I have it on the wrong side. If VRRP and starlink like to have that IPv6 LL address with ff:fe inside, and always constant, so be it.  There might be some reasons for it to be that way. Alex Le 13/02/2024 à 18:44, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink a écrit : Le 13/02/2