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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:37:20 +0900
From:      itojun@iijlab.net
To:        Aaron Angel <aja@phyco.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gif devices in -current 
Message-ID:  <12098.996183440@itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: aja's message of Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:33:49 -0400. <20010726173141.V37015-100000@solar.phyco.net> 

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>When I compiled/installed -current, and started setting things up again, I
>noticed that gif devices now expect IPv6 prefix lengths of 128.  Most
>providers use 127, and some even use 64 as prefix lengths for tunnels.  I
>was just curious why the change was made to only support prefix lengths of
>128.  Is there an RFC that covers this perhaps?

	either of the following works.  the other configurations are now
	considered ambiguous.  (the point is, if you specify prefixlen < 128
	you don't need to say the peer's address)

	# ifconfig inet6 A prefixlen X	(X can be < 128)
	# ifconfig inet6 A B prefixlen 128

itojun

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