I am an IT Trainer and trying to produce some material on how IPv6 is going to work. I understand that Link-Local address are only valid on a single network segment and that two networks connected via a router with Link-Local addresses would not be able to communicate. To do this I would need to use site-local addressing. Two questions then; Presumably the site-local addresses would be configured on the router?
Secondly how would the receving sytem know which host to return it to? Would I be right in thinking that an IPv6 router would take the Link-Local address and "translate it to the router's site-local address before forwarding to the remote network? In other words work in a similar way to NAT translates a private IP to a public address?
Any help would as always be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Secondly how would the receving sytem know which host to return it to? Would I be right in thinking that an IPv6 router would take the Link-Local address and "translate it to the router's site-local address before forwarding to the remote network? In other words work in a similar way to NAT translates a private IP to a public address?
Any help would as always be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.