--On Vendredi 22 octobre 2004 16:21 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:20:24PM -0400, Marc Blanchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 60 lines which said:
- your "netmask" is /80. illegal in ipv6. should be /64.
I am very surprised. Where this illegality is mentioned?
/64 is mandatory if you use stateless autoconfiguration (not the case here) and it is a reasonable default choice. But I would be suprised to learn it is the only legal prefix lentgth.
rfc3513:
"All global unicast addresses other than those that start with binary 000 have a 64-bit interface ID field (i.e., n + m = 64), formatted as described in section 2.5.1. "
Marc.
