> Being a little pedantic here...my understanding is that a host never knows a > subnet length, per se. What the host knows is a list of on-link prefixes, > which it matches against outbound traffic. A minimal implementation might > not keep a list of on-link prefixes and send everything to its default > router; redirects would do the rest...
This is an important distinction in some situations - but will probably be completely lost on most people coming from the IPv4 world, knowing quite a bit about subnets. Of course they're going to assume subnets work the same way in IPv6... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
