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Lan?

Lan?

Posted Jul 22, 2026 17:40 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Lan? by dskoll
Parent article: Firefox 153 released

Welcome to IPv6, the world of recursive WTFs!

There is no concept of "local" networks in IPv6, there is a notion of "on-link" networks. Which does not _necessarily_ correspond to the networks that are directly accessible in the same Ethernet collision domain.

That's because IPv6 uses multicasts instead of broadcasts for neighbor discovery, so you can have a multicast router bridging multiple Ethernet segments together. Just like proxy ARP in IPv4, but in IPv6 it's actually exposed to the host.

For an additional fun, on-link relations do not necessarily have to be transitive and they can have overlapping prefix lengths.

See: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5942 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4943


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