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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:30:42 +0100
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* Herbert Xu <E1D78DN-0002te-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> 2005-03-04 19:31
> Do we really need to handle this case? If we do then would it be better
> to consider ifa_prefixlen only when there are multiple addresses present
> which match but differ by prefix length?

One argument that would speak for the original patch is that IPv6
already handles it this way so it would be more consistent.