Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Prefix Length of Link-local Addresses

Yuji Sekiya (sekiya@sfc.wide.ad.jp)
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:41:52 +0900


At Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT),
++ David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> 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

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