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On 11 Jul 2003, Andre Tomt wrote: > On fre, 2003-07-11 at 02:04, Mika Liljeberg wrote: > > Well, the thing is that prefix:: is a special anycast address that > > identifies a router on the link prefix::/n, where n is the prefix > > length. You had configured a 127-bit link prefix, meaning that you had > > only one valid unicast address (last bit == 1) in addition to the router > > anycast address (last bit == 0). > > Thanks for the explanation, I've been struggling to understand what > Yoshfuji tried to explain to me earlier on this topic (see "IPv6 bugs > introduced in 2.4.21" - ie. my bogus bugreport), now it all makes > perfect sense :-) Well, the system may make some sense, but IMHO, there is still zero sense in policing this thing when you add a route. That's just plain bogus. This is a bug which must be fixed ASAP. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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