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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-09 15:10:31 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-09 15:10:31 +0000
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mdoc(7) police:
Restore (sorta) a useful piece of information that got lost in the previous delta -- an ability to specify /prefixlength after an IPv6 address.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=89146
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@@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ It is also possible to use the CIDR notation (also known as the
slash notation) to include the netmask.
That is, one can specify an address like
.Li 192.168.0.1/16 .
+.Pp
+For
+.Dq inet6
+family, it is also possible to specify the prefix length using the slash
+notation, like
+.Li ::1/128 .
+See the
+.Cm prefixlen
+parameter below for more information.
.\" For the Xerox Network Systems(tm) family,
.\" addresses are
.\" .Ar net:a.b.c.d.e.f ,
@@ -413,6 +422,11 @@ The
must be integer, and for syntactical reason it must be between 0 to 128.
It is almost always 64 under the current IPv6 assignment rule.
If the parameter is omitted, 64 is used.
+.Pp
+The prefix can also be specified using the slash notation after the address.
+See the
+.Ar address
+option above for more information.
.\" see
.\" Xr eon 5 .
.\" .It Cm nsellength Ar n