[6bone] Network Address translation question

[Stig Venaas]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Tim Chown wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:15:35PM +0200, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Setting up IPv6 preference:
> > 
> > mohacsi at scone> sudo ./prefer6
> > Prefix                          Prec Label      Use
> > ::1/128                           50     0        0
> > ::/0                              40     1        0
> > 2002::/16                         30     2        0
> > ::/96                             20     3        0
> > ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                 10     4        0
> 
> There is also a proposal to allow DHCPv6 to do this, at draft stage.
> 
> Of course DHCPv6 implementations are very young, but it seems a nice
> concept.

There should perhaps be a standard API so that DHC clients or other
software can be written in a portable way to manipulare or display
such policies on different platforms?

Of course DHC client might just run some script that again uses whatever
commands is available from the vendor on that platform.

Stig