Re: Is 1111 1110 10 equal to 0xfe80 or 0x3fa?

Yucel Guven <yucel.guven@gmail.com> Mon, 10 June 2019 15:46 UTC

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From: Yucel Guven <yucel.guven@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:46:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: Is 1111 1110 10 equal to 0xfe80 or 0x3fa?
To: "Mudric, Dusan (Dusan)" <dmudric@avaya.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>, "ipv6@ietf.org" <ipv6@ietf.org>
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No need to define as a range.
When you specify the prefix-length, it already defines a range.
e.g. FE80::/10 (absolutely not  FE8::/10)  has the range of
fe80:0000:0000:0000::/10 - febf:ffff:ffff:ffff::/10

Reg.'s
Yucel

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 3:58 PM Mudric, Dusan (Dusan) <dmudric@avaya.com>
wrote:

> > On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 3:48 PM Tom Herbert
> > <tom@herbertland.com> wrote
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Message: 3
> > > > Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 10:53:28 -0700
> > > > From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
> > > > To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: IPv6 <ipv6@ietf.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: Is 1111 1110 10 equal to 0xfe80 or 0x3fa?
> > > > Message-ID: <A722E202-7671-4111-BA92-8A67B3D3B924@gmail.com>
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> > > >
> > > > If I have prefix fe80::/10, as described in RFC 4291, the next bit
> > > > is bit 11. Doing the same subdivision of the prefix is fe80::/11 and
> > fea0::/11.
> > > [Dusan] The hexadecimal definition for LL address is not syntactically
> > correct. The binary 10 bit prefix 1111111010 cannot be presented as
> > hexadecimal FE80::/10. It is rather a range FE80::/10 - FEBF::/10. In
> this
> > notation, FE80::/10 = FEBF::/10,  because the first 10 bits are equal
> and other
> > 6 should be ignored. 111 1111010 can be defined as FE80::/10 only if
> every
> > time it is also mentioned that the trailing 6 bits are all zero.
> >
> > By that logic, we'd have to mention that the trailing 118 bits are
> zero.  E.g.
> > FE80::/10 == FEBD:F676:BBBB:C654:FEBD:F676:BBBB:C654/10
> > also. It's obviously convenient canonical notication to express all the
> trailing
> > bits as zeroes for a prefix, but not required. For instance, ifconfig
> shows my
> > host address as fe80::ac2f:ea58:94a:438/64 which in one string indicates
> both
> > a fully qualified address and it's prefix bits.
> [Dusan] In this example fe80::ac2f:ea58:94a:438/64 is LL address with
> 0xfe80 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 prefix. Based on LL prefix definition, this LL
> address can have a value of feab::ac2f:ea58:94a:438/64 and still have the
> binary 10 bit prefix 1111111010
>
> May be LL address can be defined in hex notation as a range FE8::/10 -
> FEB::/10? This range always has the same well know LL identifier, the
> binary 10 bit prefix 1111111010.
>
> >
> > Tom
> >
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