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Re: Variable SLAAC linux kernel implementation (SLAAC with prefixes of arbitrary length in PIO)

Dmytro Shytyi <ietf.dmytro@shytyi.net> Tue, 10 November 2020 20:30 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:30:00 +0100
From: Dmytro Shytyi <ietf.dmytro@shytyi.net>
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Variable SLAAC linux kernel implementation (SLAAC with prefixes of arbitrary length in PIO)
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Hello,

>A suggestion of correction on that howto article of the kernel patch:
>use 2001:db8 instead of 2000:db8 :-)

Indeed.  I just changed that. Now it is 2001:db8.

 >  > We discussed in private about this, but I learned from your article that 
 >  > there are two methods to generate an Interface ID of an arbitrary 
 >  > length: the default random, and the RFC 7217 stable plus privacy 
 >  > extensions.

There is a short website article that is shared around this subject: https://dmytro.shytyi.net/variable-slaac-ipv6-slaac-with-prefixes-of-arbitrary-length-in-pio/

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Dmytro SHYTYI

---- On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:03:47 +0100 Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote ----

 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, 06:58 Alexandre Petrescu, <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
 > A suggestion of correction on that howto article of the kernel patch: 
 >  use 2001:db8 instead of 2000:db8 :-)
 >  
 >  It's the documentation prefix specified in RFC.
 > 
 > 
 > Why do you care about complying with specifications?
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Alex
 >  
 >  Le 10/11/2020 à 20:55, Alexandre Petrescu a écrit :
 >  > Dmytro,
 >  > 
 >  > We discussed in private about this, but I learned from your article that 
 >  > there are two methods to generate an Interface ID of an arbitrary 
 >  > length: the default random, and the RFC 7217 stable plus privacy 
 >  > extensions.
 >  > 
 >  > When you say 'stable' - in what is it stable?
 >  > 
 >  > For my part, I plan to use this implementation in my projects of 
 >  > vehicular networks connected to cellular links.
 >  > 
 >  > Alex
 >  > 
 >  > Le 10/11/2020 à 19:05, Dmytro Shytyi a écrit :
 >  >> Dear participants of v6ops and 6man working groups,
 >  >>
 >  >> I just released the open source implementation of Variable SLAAC 
 >  >> (SLAAC with prefixes of arbitrary length in PIO) in the next github 
 >  >> repository: https://github.com/dmytroshytyi/variable-slaac
 >  >>
 >  >> Compatible linux kernels with patches in this repo:
 >  >> net-next branch
 >  >>     Linux ferby 5.10.0-rc2-00757-g8be33ecfc1ff-dirty #2 SMP PREEMPT 
 >  >> Tue Nov 10 12:33:35 CET 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 >  >> net branch
 >  >>     Linux kernel: Linux ferby 5.10.0-rc1-00133-gfffffda4fefb #1 SMP 
 >  >> PREEMPT Mon Nov 2 21:42:42 CET 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 >  >>     Linux kernel: Linux ferby 5.9.0-rc3-00357-gcc8e58f8325c-dirty #1 
 >  >> SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 10 10:50:34 CEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 >  >>
 >  >> Feel free to try it and leave your comments :)
 >  >> __________________
 >  >> Dmytro SHYTYI
 >  >>
 >  >>
 >  >>
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