Subject: Re: "proxy arp" for ipv6?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/02/2002 19:20:48
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>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
    der> Is there anything functionally akin to proxy arp for IPv6?  I have a
    der> slightly odd setup that works for IPv4 only because of proxy arp, and
    der> I'd _like_ to give that machine IPv6 connectivity.

  I'm not aware of anything. v6 uses neighbour discovery, which is similar,
but not the same thing.

    der> Or am I just exposing my ignorance of IPv6, and if so, where should I
    der> look for enlightenment?

  In theory, with IPv6, you should have sufficiently many subnets that you
can afford to consume a /64 for each PPP link, so you can do routing. 

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