On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 08:06:48PM +0200, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > And i think that > > route add -inet6 -prefixlen 56 2001:db10:: 2001:db9::5 As stated in the manual
The implicit network mask generated in the AF_INET case can be overridden by making sure this option follows the destination parameter. -prefixlen is also available for a similar purpose, for IPv6/v4. > should be an error So behaviour is as documented. But I agree that `-prefixlen' should alwayas overwrite take precendence.