Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Link Local Network Addressing

The mechanism by which local IPv6 addresses are assigned to devices on a network.

A link-local address is an Internet Protocol address that is intended only for communications within the segment of a local network (a link) or a point-to-point connection that a host is connected to. Routers do not forward packets with link-local addresses.

Local-link addresses ..........are normally only used to assign IP addresses to network interfaces when no  external, stateful mechanism of address configuration exists, such as the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), or when another primary configuration method has failed.


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