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Subject: Re: Problem with gif and IPv6 in -CURRENT
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>> what you should do here instead is:
>> ifconfig gif0 inet6 3FFE:604::2/126
>
> Every time I try a prefixlen larger than 128, I get:
>
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument

ok, that's on HEAD? I have just tried it on 6.2-PRE and some days old
HEAD and it worked on both.

Can you tell us which exact version you have; how gif0 looks before
and the exact commdn you are using?

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