From 482c896bfcfb0af5183e6440dde006ba677b693c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20K=C3=BCthe?= Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 20:05:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add hint to radv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Marek Küthe --- docs/home-network/radv.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/home-network/radv.md b/docs/home-network/radv.md index 8dc1bc9..24c1760 100644 --- a/docs/home-network/radv.md +++ b/docs/home-network/radv.md @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ In the above example I am advertising a `/64` within my `/48`/ULA (`fd40:ec65:5b ## Advertising route(s) -You can advertise a default route, to `fd00::/8` or simply all routes in your router's routing table, to your hosts using the following: +You can advertise a default route, to `fd00::/8` or simply all routes in your router's routing table, to your hosts using the following. +The advantage of announcing only a single `fd00::/8` is that this needs less advertisement updates and thus consumes less traffic. Furthermore, the end devices do not have to maintain such large routing tables. ### Advertising a single `fd00::/8`