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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Lee Johnston <lee@wildcard.net.uk>
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Subject: Re: 31-Bit IPv4 Prefixes
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:34:26PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Lee Johnston, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> We've just been allocated a /31 for a point-to-point over ethernet.
> Any idea if FreeBSD supports 31-bit prefixes as per RFC 3021?

I don't think it does (but that's not positive knowledge).  You can
probably faking it by assigning the address as a /32, then manually
adding a static route through that interface to the other address.


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