netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14427] New: ipv6 forward cause strange route

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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:01:15 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, green@....ru,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14427] New: ipv6 forward cause strange route

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
>>  RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
>>  RFC 3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful
>
> I should say "Subnet-router anycast address" and
> RFC3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing
> Architecture".

FWIW, please note that commercial vendors haven't implemented this 
very extensively, and there's also some recent activity arguing this 
is not very useful:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kohno-ipv6-prefixlen-p2p-00

We'll likely get better idea how folks react to this during the next 
week's IETF.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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