peering by link local address

[Chris Malayter]

Makoto,

What exactly are you trying to do with Link Local peering?

In 99% of the cases, this would be highly ill-advised.

-Chris


On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Makoto wrote:

> Hi.
> I built bird with --enable-v6 on FreeBSD8.0, then tried to peer by
> link local IPv6 address, but I couldn’t. I have 2 questions. Can
> anyone help me?
> 
> 1. lladdress specification
> I can get output "fe80:[IfIndex]::[EUI64]" by show interface command
> in birdc6. but I think correct lladress format is "fe80::[EUI64]".
> what is happened ? can I change to lladdresses I want to use?
> 
> 2.Syntax
> I wonder how to specify lladdress peering configuration. I write as
> followings, but it says "Syntax error". What do I do wrong?
> 
>  protocol bgp {
>    local as [ASN];
>    neighbor [lladdress]%[InterfaceName] as [ASN];
>    import all;
>    export all;
>  }
> 
> Makoto.
>