[75433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Nov 12 18:12:58 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 12 Nov 2004 23:12:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20041112212611.GA12237@srv01.cluenet.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > > "specified the entire 128 bits"... how do you specify only part of it?
> >
> > On Solaris, you would use the "token" option ...
>
> Ah thanks. No, not seen anywhere in Linux or *BSD.
we (ISC) asked KAME about this, and they suggested:
% cat /etc/start_if.nge0
ifconfig nge0 inet6 fe80::1
...which for freebsd 5.2.1 at least, has the right effect. rtsol still runs,
and once the upper 64 bits are known, the obvious thing happens:
% ifconfig nge0 | grep ::
inet6 fe80::1%nge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet6 2001:4f8:3:bb::1 prefixlen 64 autoconf
...so it's not as easy as the solaris "token" thing described earlier in this
thread, but it actually works fine and it's become universal on ISC's hosts.
--
Paul Vixie
