On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 10:45 +0800, Washam Fan wrote: > in our current design, the customer is allowed to set prefix-len to > non-64 value like 65. But according to discussions in this thread, it > seems to me we SHOULD NOT allow our customers to set prefix-len to > non-64 value unless they assign an address starting with 000.(Ask > again, should we allow our customers to assign an address starting > with 000 in first place?)
I suggest either a warning/confirm if they use a non-64-bit IID ("You
have just configured a non-standard interface ID! Proceed?") or
alternatively have a checkbox somewhere "allow non-64-bit (non-standard)
interface IDs".
Regards, K.
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