From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20021009.164504.28085695.davem@redhat.com> References: <20021010002902.A3803@edi-view1.cisco.com> <20021009.162438.82081593.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dfawcus@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, usagi@linux-ipv6.org Return-path: To: sekiya@sfc.wide.ad.jp In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Yuji Sekiya Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:41:52 +0900 The reason we change the prefix length from /10 to /64 is following spec and adapting other imprementations. I think Derek's explanation shows that the specification allows the /10 behavior. Also, I suspect that since Derek works for Cisco, some "other implementations" behave how he describes. :-)