(usagi-users 01007) Re: Scoped Addresses

[Ben Clifford <benc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Bernd Walter wrote:

> > Can anybody explain why you don't have scoping on site local addresses -
> > if I configure eth0 and eth1 to have the same prefix, on the basis that
> > they are different sites, how do I specify which to use?
> 
> Why would you want to do this?
> The site local addressrange contain enough prefixes that theres no need
> to reuse them within a single site.

I was talking about if the interfaces are in *different* sites. I think
that is how current thinking goes - that each interface can be in a
different site.

In that case, I may not have a choice about what site addresses are used
in each site - the site admins for each site quite legitimately could
choose the same prefix for their two links which connect to my machine. If
they have to co-ordinate their addressing, then the addressing is no
longer site local.

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