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

Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> Tue, 10 November 2020 20:04 UTC

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From: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:03:47 +1100
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Subject: Re: Variable SLAAC linux kernel implementation (SLAAC with prefixes of arbitrary length in PIO)
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmytro Shytyi <ietf.dmytro@shytyi.net>, IPv6 <ipv6@ietf.org>
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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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