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
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
