Hi,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:07 AM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:48:29PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
> > Going through patchworks noticed this.
> >
> > Thankfully this never got committed so here goes a retraction.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:45 PM Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm on a reviewing spree (doing my penance), so here goes..
> > >
> > > Thanks for the patch
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Eyal Birger <eyal.bir...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Address prefix length defaults to /64 on Windows. This change allows
> > > using
> > > > Windows clients in setups that use a different prefix length.
>
> I had this on "I need to do more testing with this", which is why it
> never proceeded - there might be unintended side effects, so I wanted
> to do more detailed testing with "netsh" and with "iservice" backends,
> and different prefix lengths etc.
>
> Also, I had the suspicion that if we actually set a prefix length, it
> will lead to local ND traffic which the tap driver won't answer (it
> will only answer fe80::8) thus causing a "black hole route" for the
> tap subnet...
>

Aha, that explains why it lingered in that state for long :)

However, we do currently set the prefix-length while using the
service (that->netbits_ipv6 is passed as prefix_len to the ip helper API),
don't we?

Selva
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