A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : A Larger Loopback Prefix for IPv6 Author(s) : Mark Smith Filename : draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loopback-prefix-04.txt Pages : 12 Date : 2013-02-20 Abstract: During the development and testing of a network application, it can be useful to run multiple instances of the application using the same transport layer protocol port on the same development host, while also having network access to the application instances limited to the local host. Under IPv4, this has commonly been possible by using different loopback addresses within 127/8. It is not possible under IPv6, as the loopback prefix of ::1/128 only provides a single loopback address. This memo proposes a new larger loopback prefix that will provide many IPv6 loopback addresses. The processing rules for this new larger loopback prefix also allow sending or forwarding of packets containing these addresses beyond the originating router under certain circumstances. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loopback-prefix There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loopback-prefix-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loopback-prefix-04 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
