Re: IPv6 Loopback Address Range

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>]

Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote:
> Hi,
>    If I want to use more than 1 loopback IPv4 address, I can
>    assign one from 127.0.0.0/8 address range.
> 
>    Does IANA reserve some IPv6 address range for loopback communication?
>    If not, what is the best address range to use for assigning such an
> IPv6 address?

As Chris mentioned there is only 1 "loopback" address, not a full /8
anymore.

Most very likely you will want these loopbacks, like everything else, to
be globally unique. As such ULA (RFC4193) to the rescue, or just take a
/64 or something from the address space you get from your ISP/RIR/etc.

Greets,
 Jeroen

http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/ for a handy generator/registration.

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