From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:42:37 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20021010014237.F8102@edi-view1.cisco.com> References: <20021010002902.A3803@edi-view1.cisco.com> <20021009.162438.82081593.davem@redhat.com> <20021009.164504.28085695.davem@redhat.com> <20021010010439.C8102@edi-view1.cisco.com> <20021010012108.E8102@edi-view1.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, usagi@linux-ipv6.org Return-path: To: Yuji Sekiya In-Reply-To: ; from sekiya@sfc.wide.ad.jp on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:35:26AM +0900 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:35:26AM +0900, Yuji Sekiya wrote: > OK. I have assigned fe80:1910::10/64 link-local address to > USAGI linux box and tried to ping ipv6. > > Target IPv6 address: fe80:1910::10 > Repeat count [5]: > Datagram size [100]: > Timeout in seconds [2]: > Extended commands? [no]: > Output Interface: FastEthernet4/1 > Type escape sequence to abort. > Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to FE80:1910::10, timeout is 2 seconds: > !!!!! > Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/4 ms > > Oct 10 09:27:35: IPV6: source FE80::201:64FF:FEA3:ED55 (local) > Oct 10 09:27:35: dest FE80:1910::10 (FastEthernet4/1) > Oct 10 09:27:35: traffic class 224, flow 0x0, len 64+16, prot 58, hops 255, originating > Oct 10 09:27:35: IPv6: Sending on FastEthernet4/1 Well what do you know? At least one implementation supports that type of config. Anyway, I as said in an earlier email, do whatever you want. I just considered that change to be dubious. DF