From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 5 8:27:43 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 90F6A37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:27:38 -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 AAA05702; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 00:27:45 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 00:24:53 +0900 Message-ID: From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prefixes configured for an interface. In-Reply-To: <17ED9798.13B9F8D9.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <17ED9798.13B9F8D9.9513E96F@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: 25 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 Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:28:25 -0400, >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said: > I gave two prefixes through the prefix command. My other machine formed addresses based on the prefixes. By seeing the addresses i got the following doubt. First of all, please forget the prefix(8) command, as I mentioned in a previous message. Instead, you should do all the operation using ifconfig(8). > a)Whether there is any limit on the number prefixes that can be broadcast by a router on a perticular interface? No, according to the spec. > b)Suppose the router broadcasts 4 site local prefixes can a host form four site local addresse? What i mean is Iam doing these things on my own simple 2 PC network. If suppose the same thing is done on a ipv6 internet does it violate any rules? No. > c)can the host communicate with other hosts in a differnet subent through any of the four addresses? Yes, it can. 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