Subj : Re: Birthday present from he.net
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Jul 08 2016 08:37:00

-=> Richard Menedetter wrote to Joe Delahaye <=-

 RM> Hi Joe!

 RM> 07 Jul 2016 10:00, from Joe Delahaye -> Richard Menedetter:

 JD>>> My BBS machine is part of the network.  All of my connected
 JD>>> networked systems have an internal (at least) ipv6 address,
 JD>>> including the Router.
 RM>> With internal you mean one starting with fe80?
 JD> No they all start with 2607

 RM> Ah ok ... so they are global addresses.
 RM> FE80 is the prefix for link-local addresses.

As another data point, on my network, the link local address is the default
gateway for IPv6.  I found this one out when I had issues setting up static IP
addresses and noticed that the router's link local address was the default
gateway on autoconfigured machines.  

Here's an example from this PC. :)

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:44b8:4176:f100::19
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:44b8:4176:f100:a93d:90f3:6746:7f73
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2001:44b8:4176:f100:38fa:27d6:f402:fa6a
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a93d:90f3:6746:7f73%11
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.69.181.25
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::9ec7:a6ff:fe25:4d9b%11
                                       10.69.181.1



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