Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/ifconfig

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 07 May 2008, David Young wrote:
> While I am here, allow an
> address to be given with prefix length /0, but interpret it as
> /128.

What!?  If I specify [f000::baaa]/0 I expect it to either complain
"incompatible address and length (some non-zero bits appear beyond the
specified length)" or treat it like [::]/0 (ignoring all bits beyond
the specified length).  Treating it like [f000::baaa]/128 would be very
surprising to me.

--apb (Alan Barrett)