> > Nothing breaks (wrt normal LL address usage) if those 54 bits have non > > zero > > values. > > Actually, you'll run in to some issues with any IPv6 stack based on > Kame's implementation. Kame makes use of some of those bits to embed > the scope id in some places while packets are handled in the kernel and > in a few cases this may be used between the kernel/userspace boundary. > Arguably, it's not the right thing for the stack to do, but it is done.
FYI, from what I can see, USAGI will work with fe80::/10. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
