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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Thu, 07 January 2016 12:42 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)
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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
>          - a router does implement longest-matching algorithms, a Host
>            doesn't.

Of course hosts do.  Why would any implementor not do that?

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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