prefix: A variable-length field containing an IP address or the prefix of an IP address. An IPv4-mapped address [RFC4291] must be used to represent an IPv4 address as a prefix value. The prefix should be left aligned, big-endian, and zero padded on the right up to the next octet boundary. So the length of this field should be between 0 and 16 bytes
is ambigious on the encoding of 2002:1234:8734::/64 is it: 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34:00 or 40:20:02:12:34:87:34 All appear to be legal. It would be cleaner if the floor((prefix-len+7)/8) gave the number of octets in the prefix field. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------