Re: Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:21:21PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > What do you mean with "compatibility addresses"?  I don't know of
> > any such thing.
> 
>           |              96-bits                 |   32-bits    |
>           +--------------------------------------+--------------+
>           |            0:0:0:0:0:0               | IPv4 Address |
>           +--------------------------------------+--------------+
>                        IPv4-Compatible IPv6 Address Format

Oh, those.  I forgot about them.

I've never seen anybody using them, and I can't think of a good
reason to use them either.  They're not even routable now.


Kurt