[Fwd: Re: [6bone] ifconfig and EUI-64]

[Pim van Pelt]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 07:21:51PM -0400, Aaron Angel wrote:
| Ehk; forgot to Cc: the list.
Aaron,

Thanks for the remarks but I was specifically stating that I wish
_not_ to use the Router Discovery protocol on a host. Let us say that
our box is a router itself, then we would like to set the interface
addresses in the global scope implicitly by specifying something like:

# ifconfig gx0 inet6 2001:7b8:3:1234:: -prefixlen 64 -eui64

Which would make the box calculate the lower order 64 bits via the MAC
address (thanks, Francis) in stead of having the user set it explicitly.

Your rtsol/rtsold (and the standard Linux/Windows behavior) have nothing
to do with this. I should check out the INRIA comment though, thanks for
that hint!

groet,
Pim
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| > From: Aaron Angel <aangel@transa.infoarc.sodaknet.com>
| > To: Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl>
| > Subject: Re: [6bone] ifconfig and EUI-64
| > Date: 09 Jun 2002 19:21:08 -0400
| > 
| > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 13:22, Pim van Pelt wrote:
| > > Hi guys,
| > > 
| > > Does anyone know why exactly the ifconfig programs for the BSDs, Linux
| > > and most probably Solaris are not able to autoconfigure their own
| > > addresses, by not using the RS/RA schema, but a local autoconfiguration
| > > such as the Cisco IOS:
| > > 
| > The KAME stack comes with rtsol and rtsold; the former sends
| > solicitations once, the latter is a daemonized version.
| > 
| > As far as Linux goes (or anything supported, for that matter),
| > distributions which use INRIA support it in ifconfig with the eui64
| > keyword...exactly how, I'm not sure; I don't use it.
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