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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:40:05 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        "Krejsa, Dan" <dan.krejsa@windriver.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPP IPv6 prefix length and stateless autoconfiguration?
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>>>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:19:55 -0700, 
>>>>> "Krejsa, Dan" <dan.krejsa@windriver.com> said:

> Some code in the in6_update_ifa() function in netinet6/in6.c
> enforces that if an IPv6 destination address is specified for
> an interface address, the interface must be point-to-point or
> loopback (fine), and the corresponding prefix length must be
> exactly 128 bits.

> The latter seems (at least naively) to conflict with 
> the definition in

>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-over-ppp-v2-02.txt

> that the interface identifier length for PPP interfaces is 64 bits, and
> correspondingly prefixes accepted from a router advertisement
> must also be 64 bits long; see section 5.5.3 in

>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2462bis-08.txt

So shouldn't you simply specify the prefix length of 64 without
specifying the *destination* address of the p2p link?

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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