Re: Understanding IPv6-PD over PPPoE

[Steve Hill <steve opendium com>]

On 16/06/2021 11:44, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> Not at all.  Assigning a global address to lo (loopback) is perfectly
> fine.

Can an address from PD be automatically assigned to lo by NetworkManager?

> No need to assign an address to a link unless you want to assign
> a prefix to it.

Having the address on the "correct" NIC makes address selection work 
properly where you have multiple connections.

> And you obviously don't want to do that for the link
> you received the IA_PD from, which is why it isn't allowed
You don't want to send router advertisements for the prefix on that 
link, but assigning a /128 address, which would be automatically used 
for outgoing connections being made through that NIC, should be fine.

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