From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 26 14:37:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from coconut.itojun.org (coconut.itojun.org [210.160.95.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D3E37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from itojun@itojun.org) Received: from itojun.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coconut.itojun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2067C4B21; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:37:20 +0900 (JST) To: Aaron Angel Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: aja's message of Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:33:49 -0400. <20010726173141.V37015-100000@solar.phyco.net> X-Template-Reply-To: itojun@itojun.org X-Template-Return-Receipt-To: itojun@itojun.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: F8 24 B4 2C 8C 98 57 FD 90 5F B4 60 79 54 16 E2 Subject: Re: gif devices in -current From: itojun@iijlab.net Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:37:20 +0900 Message-ID: <12098.996183440@itojun.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >When I compiled/installed -current, and started setting things up again, I >noticed that gif devices now expect IPv6 prefix lengths of 128. Most >providers use 127, and some even use 64 as prefix lengths for tunnels. I >was just curious why the change was made to only support prefix lengths of >128. Is there an RFC that covers this perhaps? either of the following works. the other configurations are now considered ambiguous. (the point is, if you specify prefixlen < 128 you don't need to say the peer's address) # ifconfig inet6 A prefixlen X (X can be < 128) # ifconfig inet6 A B prefixlen 128 itojun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message