On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:57 AM, David W. Hankins <David_Hankins@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Honestly, I chose this path because I believed that non-64 bit prefix > lengths would be uncommon until much later in IPv6's deployment. ÂI > figure it affects the least number of people until we can get a fix > installed. On a side-note: I recently had a look on how Solaris is working around the non-64-prefixlen problem in dhcpv6. Their dhcpv6-client always assigns a /128-address to the interface. If their neighbor-discovery-daemon detects a /128-address on an interface with the IFF_DHCPRUNNING flag it will adjust the prefixlen to the one advertised. You can find further information here [1] from line 766 ongoing. hannes [1] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/sbin/dhcpagent/README.v6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
