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

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 10 November 2020 20:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: Variable SLAAC linux kernel implementation (SLAAC with prefixes of arbitrary length in PIO)
To: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmytro Shytyi <ietf.dmytro@shytyi.net>, IPv6 <ipv6@ietf.org>
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Le 10/11/2020 à 21:03, Mark Smith a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, 06:58 Alexandre Petrescu, 
> <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com <mailto: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?

Part of the reasons is a sort of laziness coupled to a need for things
that last.

Ideally, I would take standardized things cheaply open source
off-the-shelf, put them in cars, vi some files, and that's it.
Probably such ideal does not exist, but I like it.

But, what makes one think I wouldnt care complying with specifications?

Alex

> 
> 
> 
> 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
> <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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