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Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses
From: Yuji Sekiya <sekiya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:41:52 +0900
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At Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT),
++ David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    There are areas where the TAHI tests expect a certain behaviour
>    when more than one behaviour is acceptable.
> 
> Great, that's what I was trying to find out.
> 
> Now I just need to know if this link-local prefix case
> is one such issue. :-)

No, there is no test item in TAHI test that supposes
link-local prefix is /64 :-)

The reason we change the prefix length  from /10 to /64 is
following spec and adapting other imprementations.

-- Yuji Sekiya


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