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Re: Abnormal behaviour of ping6



On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:20:24PM -0400,
 Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> - your "netmask" is /80. illegal in ipv6. should be /64.

I am very surprised. Where this illegality is mentioned?

/64 is mandatory if you use stateless autoconfiguration (not the case
here) and it is a reasonable default choice. But I would be suprised
to learn it is the only legal prefix lentgth.

> - the kernel probably sets it to /64 anyway.

I do not think so.



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