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Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefi

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
References: <20050304012003.GA31837@postel.suug.ch> <E1D78DN-0002te-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> <20050304131419.GE31837@postel.suug.ch> <20050304233212.GA27421@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050305002910.GJ31837@postel.suug.ch>
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> 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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