[6bone] Network Address translation question

[Mohacsi Janos]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Stig Venaas wrote:

> 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.
>

I think writing software that is maipulating policy in a portable way is 
rather difficult. I suspect easiest method could be to write script to 
each platform that support RFC 3484, which hides differences of platform.
The ISC IPv4 dhcp client is doing this way already...

Regards,


Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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