Re: How to extract IPv6 RAs?

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:57 AM, David W. Hankins <David_Hankins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Honestly, I chose this path because I believed that non-64 bit prefix
> lengths would be uncommon until much later in IPv6's deployment. ÂI
> figure it affects the least number of people until we can get a fix
> installed.

On a side-note:
I recently had a look on how Solaris is working around the
non-64-prefixlen problem in dhcpv6. Their dhcpv6-client always assigns
a /128-address to the interface. If their neighbor-discovery-daemon
detects a /128-address on an interface with the IFF_DHCPRUNNING flag
it will adjust the prefixlen to the one advertised.

You can find further information here [1] from line 766 ongoing.

  hannes

[1] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/sbin/dhcpagent/README.v6
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