Subj : Re: Birthday present from he.net
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Thu Jul 07 2016 21:41:32

  Re: Re: Birthday present from he.net
  By: Tony Langdon to Richard Menedetter on Fri Jul 08 2016 08:37:00

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

 TL> Here's an example from this PC. :)

 TL> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

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

Here is what I get from IPConfig on this machine (not the bbs)

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2607:f2c0:f00e:4201:c71:c459:6cce:9fea
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2607:f2c0:f00e:4201:7470:583b:9f45:b3d2
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c71:c459:6cce:9fea%9
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.189
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::c612:f5ff:fe66:e6c8%9
                                       192.168.0.1

.... I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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