| To: | Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length |
| From: | Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:31:49 +0100 |
| Cc: | davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20050305002910.GJ31837@postel.suug.ch> |
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| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
> I've been thinking about this since yesterday and the best solution I > came up so far is to encode it in one of the yet unused bits in > the prefixlength field. After all we're only using 5bits of it. What > i'm thinking of in particular is to encode it as in 1 bit wildcard > flag 5 bits prefix length. 6 bits i meant of course, silly me. ;-> |
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