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Re: [v6ops] A proposal for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07 - FE80:: means FE80::/9

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Wed, 08 March 2017 03:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] A proposal for draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07 - FE80:: means FE80::/9
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:19:21 +0100." <a11c6b9b-ae5c-7c7d-a71c-cc5d8b80d047@gmail.com>
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In message <a11c6b9b-ae5c-7c7d-a71c-cc5d8b80d047@gmail.com>, Alexandre Petrescu writes:
> Thanks to this discussion, I would like to promote the following fact
> that I did not know:
>
> If you say "FE80::" without telling the prefix length, that actually
> means "FE80::/9" (and not FE80::/10, nor FE80::/64).  Because 0xFE80  is
> "1111 1110 1000 0000" in binary representation.
>
> Alex

No.

FE80:: is always 128 bits.
FE80::/9 says take the first 9 bits from those 128 bits.
FE80::/10 says take the first 10 bits from those 128 bits.
FE80::/64 says take the first 64 bits from those 128 bits.
FE80::/128 says take the first 128 bits from those 128 bits.

All link local addresses have a prefix of FE80::/10.
Link local addresses on ethernet are further restricted to
have a prefix of FE80::/64.  They are a strict subset of
all valid link local addresses.

Mark
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