> From: Craig Finseth [snark17@xxxxxxxxx] > > You've just rediscovered what the "link local" part of the link-local > address means: the address is local to the link! It is not globally > unique or even unique within a host, it is just unique within a link. Actually, it's globally *unique*, because it contains the MAC address. The problem is that it's not *routable*, even within the context of a single host. And unless you give an application on the host guidance, it depends on host-context routing to get its output packets to the correct wire. It's hard to remain aware that host-context routing is important, because it's almost always worked. Dale