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IPv6 routing protocols


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:03:33 +0200

On 9 jun 2011, at 19:41, Nick Hilliard wrote:

Iljitsch noted: "IPv6 routing protocols also pretty much only use link locals".  This is not true in the general case.

So which routing protocols communicate using global addresses then?

As far as I know only BGP but BGP runs over TCP so it's different from all other routing protocols. And it still 
carries link local next hop addresses.

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