From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jul 21 23:24:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp [202.249.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083E037B401 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp) Received: from localhost ([3ffe:501:100f:13ff::a]) by shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (8.9.1+3.1W/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04045; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:26:24 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:47:09 +0900 Message-ID: From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: addresses ::1/128 and ff01::/32 In-Reply-To: <2FAB92FB.78BCF400.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <2FAB92FB.78BCF400.9513E96F@netscape.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.5.8 (Smooth) Emacs/21.0 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan. MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 20 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 05:32:23 -0400, >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said: > Can anybody please mail me why ::1/128 & ff01::/32 addresses are put > to the routing table? Otherwise, the sending node cannot make a packet sent to ::1 (or ff01::xxx) looped-back on the node itself. We can do it by adding special cases in the IPv6 output routine, but it would be much more convenient to just use the existing routing table engine. > what does "128" and "32" indicate? The length of prefix (I'm not sure if this is really the answer you want, though). JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message