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From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: Help: Macro limit in file "nd6.h"
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At Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:11:54 +0000,
"Varadarajan, Sudharshan" <Sudharshan.Varadarajan@netapp.com> wrote:

> When I was going through the file nd6.h, (../sysnetinet6/nd6.h) I find that macro (prefix list size) "PRLSTSIZ" is defined as 10. Is there any particular reason for having a lower value like this?

I don't remember, but I suspect it was an arbitrary choice.

Maybe you can find the rationale (if any) in old commit logs when the
code was developed by the KAME project at, e.g.,
http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/

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