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SLAAC on non-/64 networks

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Sat, 17 March 2018 21:06 UTC

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From: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
Subject: SLAAC on non-/64 networks
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Folks,

FYI, OpenBSD now ships with RFC7217 support, and in the process, they
have removed the artificial /64 limit, and can do SLAAC on prefixes
shorter and longer than /64 (say, /60, /32, etc.).

Quite cool. -- but even if you disagree, I guess the "FYI" is still
valuable. :-)

P.S.: The reader might enjoy the commit message at:
<https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/slaacd/engine.c#rev1.22>
 :-)

Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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