Re: IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.ipv6.general
Organization Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan.
Message-ID <y7vu0dknmce.wl%[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:24:27 -0800, 
>>>>> YT <[email protected]> said:

> I understood these MACROs are not to validate IPv6 address format,
> but to indetify the type of IPv6 address,

> If I want to "validate" the linklocal address format,
> I have to check if 54bit are zero. Is that right?

In general, yes, while I'm not sure whether you ever want to perform
such "check" in practice, though.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					[email protected]
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