[GTALUG] 2 networks under ip (iproute2)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:44:08PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> On 02/27/2015 04:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > The only time you see 169.254.0.0/16 is when DHCP fails, or if someone
> > really knows what they are doing and have a reason to use addresses that
> > can not be routed.
> 
> Even so, according to RFC 3927, you're not supposed to have routable and
> link local addresses on an interface at the same time.

Well IPv6 does it all the time and requires it in the standard.
Not IPv4 though.

And I have not done them at the same time for IPv4, only ever when link
local traffic was the only thing the interface was supposed to carry.

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Len Sorensen