Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:36:44 -0400 Received: from shaku.sfc.wide.ad.jp ([203.178.143.49]:32681 "EHLO shaku.sfc.wide.ad.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:36:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:41:52 +0900 Message-ID: From: Yuji Sekiya To: "David S. Miller" Cc: dfawcus@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, usagi@linux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses In-Reply-To: <20021009.162438.82081593.davem@redhat.com> References: <20021009234421.J29133@edinburgh.cisco.com> <20021009.161414.63434223.davem@redhat.com> <20021010002902.A3803@edi-view1.cisco.com> <20021009.162438.82081593.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.4 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Kashiharajing=FE-mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/20.7 (i386-*-nt5.1.2600) MULE/4.1 (AOI) Meadow/1.15pre1-IPv6 (SHOUBU:63) Organization: Keio University MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 24 At Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT), ++ David S. Miller wrote: > There are areas where the TAHI tests expect a certain behaviour > when more than one behaviour is acceptable. > > Great, that's what I was trying to find out. > > Now I just need to know if this link-local prefix case > is one such issue. :-) No, there is no test item in TAHI test that supposes link-local prefix is /64 :-) The reason we change the prefix length from /10 to /64 is following spec and adapting other imprementations. -- Yuji Sekiya - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/