Re: ipv6 anycast

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>> I use them for my network. RFC5969.
>> 
>> aha!  do you mean
>> 
>> 5.  Troubleshooting and Traceability
>>   ...
>>   The 6rd CE and BR SHOULD support the IPv6 Subnet-Router anycast
>>   address [RFC4291] for its own 6rd delegated prefix.  This allows, for
>>   example, IPv6 ICMP echo messages to be sent to the 6rd virtual
>>   interface itself for additional troubleshooting of the internal
>>   operation of 6rd at a given CE or BR.
> 
> indeed. and note that this makes no requirement that _any_ type of
> interface has to support this.

btw, that is an rfc, not a network :)

do you know if free.fr and/or others actually deployed and tested this?
among other things, i worry about code paths that are rarely, if ever,
used.

randy