Le 24/02/2017 à 15:59, Christopher Morrow a écrit :
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alexandre.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: A question to Windows is the following: what prefixlen does it set when the end user manually assigns an address on an interface without specifiying a prefixlen? I don't think this matters... 'end users' will in almost all cases just attach and get connectivity.
Let me go next in cycle: what does linux do when one ifconfig add an IPv6 address without telling the plen? Is it adding an entry in the rt table? Which plen? Is that plen normal?
If they are in a place where someone says: "Hey, you should go if/ipconfig ...." then .. they are 'consenting adults' and can do whatever they please.
I assume you assume that ip/ifconfig by consenting adults means the adults type a plen in the CLI, right? That makes it mandatory that the CLI _requires_ a plen, right? That CLI should not allow silence for a plen parameter. Because silent plen means 64. And I dont think it's right to assume a by-default 64 plen. Because many people think 64 is right and others think it's wrong, there does not seem to be a commonly agreed 'by default' value for plen. Alex
again the proposed text (now 175+ messages back) really covers this already..