Comment by ianburrell

Comment by ianburrell a year ago

2 replies

IPv6 assigns link-local addresses automatically. They are for talking to other computers on same the network. It works when you don't have router. It won't interfere with anything else.

IPv6 supports multiple addresses on each machine for different scopes: global, internal, local. IPv6 uses address hierarchy to figure out which one to use to reach destination.

nottorp a year ago

Why?

> It works when you don't have router.

Who doesn't have a router?

  • orangeboats a year ago

    Computers connected by a switch? Another scenario is when you connect two computers directly by Ethernet.

    Or... Peer to peer links between your router and the ISP?