Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:13:56 GMT From: Wout Decré <wout@delta-design.be> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/162404: IPv6 link-local address compared with IPv4 loopback address and IPv6 site-local deprecated Message-ID: <201111091413.pA9EDulb086835@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201111091420.pA9EK7qk094266@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 162404 >Category: docs >Synopsis: IPv6 link-local address compared with IPv4 loopback address and IPv6 site-local deprecated >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 09 14:20:07 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Wout Decré >Release: >Organization: Canodus >Environment: >Description: IPv6 link-local address (fe80) is compared with IPv4 loopback address in the Handbook's IPv6 chapter. >How-To-Repeat: Visit http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ipv6.html. >Fix: IPv6 link-local should be compared with IPv4 link-local, or Automatic Private IP Addressing (169.254.1.0 through 169.254.254.255), or even private IP addressing. Maybe a note for site-local should be that it is deprecated (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3879.txt). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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