On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:02 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Surely all your machines can communicate quite happily using IPv6 link-local addresses? Why this fascination with Legacy IP?
Because none of my facilities (including my desktops) are set up to use IPv6.
You'd be surprised.
These days, many modern Linux distributions -- and even crap like Windows and OS X -- will setup a link-local IPv6 address automatically in the default configuration.
So, if you really do hate IPv6, you'll have to work quite hard to completely turn it off on all your facilities :-)