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Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 12 Nov 2004 23:12:32 +0000
"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
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- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?, (continued)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Kevin Oberman (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- RE: IPV6 renumbering painless? Tony Hain (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Nils Ketelsen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Simon Leinen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Simon Leinen (Nov 12)
- KAME on IPv4? (was: Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?) Crist Clark (Nov 12)
- Re: KAME on IPv4? (was: Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?) Jeroen Massar (Nov 14)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Paul Vixie (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Henning Brauer (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Henning Brauer (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Henning Brauer (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Alexei Roudnev (Nov 13)