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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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78 Chapter 1—IPv6 Unicast Routing Protocols
If this option is disabled and the given address has a site-local scope, the ifconfig1()
function returns immediately. Note ifc_index still has the value L for the given inter-
face structure.
1511–1517 The ioctl() call is issued here to retrieve the network mask associated with
the given address, and then sin6mask2len() converts the mask to the prefix length
by counting the leftmost consecutive bits on. The prefix length is saved in plen for a
subsequent call to ifa_match().
1518–1523 The ifa_match() function (not described in this book) matches the given
address and the prefix length against all of the addresses ...
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ISBN: 9780080489308