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Subject: Re: [PATCH]  IPv6 Prefix List support for 2.5.31
To: kumarkr@us.ibm.com (Krishna Kumar)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 04:32:22 +0400 (MSD)
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Hello!

> - Routing table will have lots of address prefixes that are not available
>   to the local interface addresses.

Well, all the direct routes are prefixes by definition.


> - To be a prefix list entry, it should come via an RA.

Wrong. But this does not matter, RA routes may be tagged with a flag.


> -  Also, the search over a longer routing table across all nodes is more
>    time consuming.

Do you jest? You compare linear search with lookup in radix tree. :-)

Alexey
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