Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:47:09 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: addresses ::1/128 and ff01::/32 Message-ID: <y7v4rs5cy76.wl@condor.jinmei.org> In-Reply-To: <2FAB92FB.78BCF400.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <2FAB92FB.78BCF400.9513E96F@netscape.net>
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>>>>> 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
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