Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:23:26 -0500 From: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: fe80::1%lo0 Message-ID: <94a99b96-808b-8f50-a4a3-eec8659737cd@citrin.ru>
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Hello, Why FreeBSD adds fe80::1%lo0 to the loopback interface? I know, that in IPv6 each interface should have a link-local address, but ::1 can be considered as link-local: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.5.3 I think fe80::1 is unnecessary can be removed. For all practical purposes ::1 should be enough. BTW Linux has only ::1 on the loopback interface.
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