netdev - Re: /128 link-local subnet on 6in4 (sit) tunnels?

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Message-ID: <1364411571.15362.8.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:12:51 +0100
From:	Wilco Baan Hofman <wilco@...nhofman.nl>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: /128 link-local subnet on 6in4 (sit) tunnels?

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 19:35 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 07:20:54PM +0100, Wilco Baan Hofman wrote:
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4213
> 
> Thanks, I have seen that already. The sit driver is used for more than 6in4
> (6to4, isatap, 6rd). So such a change has to be ok with all the other
> protocols implemented by sit. I also looked in the historic git archive for a
> rationale of this but couldn't find one. Commit messages 2002 where not as
> descriptive as today("Import changeset"). :)
> 
> I also added YOSHIFUJI Hideaki as Cc, perhaps he knows the reason.

Fair enough, I sort of expected a comment to be there as to why it would
be a /128 as well.. :)

-- Wilco

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