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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	green@msu.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14427] New: ipv6 forward cause strange route
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:01:15 +0200 (EET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0911040959540.10606@netcore.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF011A6.1070903@linux-ipv6.org>

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
>>  RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
>>  RFC 3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful
>
> I should say "Subnet-router anycast address" and
> RFC3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing
> Architecture".

FWIW, please note that commercial vendors haven't implemented this 
very extensively, and there's also some recent activity arguing this 
is not very useful:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kohno-ipv6-prefixlen-p2p-00

We'll likely get better idea how folks react to this during the next 
week's IETF.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-04  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-14427-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-11-03  6:32 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 14427] New: ipv6 forward cause strange route Andrew Morton
2009-11-03 11:06   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2009-11-03 11:19     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2009-11-04  8:01       ` Pekka Savola [this message]

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