[radvd-devel-l] New option idea: Base6Interface

[Reuben Hawkins]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Stephen Dawkins <elfarto at elfarto.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been thinking it would be nice to have an option like
> Base6to4Interface, but that takes the IPv6 address/prefix from the
> specified interface, and uses that instead of having to specify the
> prefix in the radvd conf file.
>
> Example (assuming eth0 is the LAN and eth1 is the WAN with an IPv6
> address that's already been assigned):
>
> interface eth0 {
>        AdvSendAdvert on;
>        MinRtrAdvInterval 3;
>        MaxRtrAdvInterval 10;
>        prefix ::/64 {
>                AdvOnLink on;
>                AdvAutonomous on;
>                AdvRouterAddr on;
>                Base6Interface eth1;
>        };
> };
>
> Taking this one step futher, would it be possible to get radvd to act
> more like a dumb repeater, including any information that was received
> (such as RDNSS and DNSSL)?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Stephen
>
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Another way to accomplish this would be to scan /proc/net/ipv6_route for
prefixes.  The attached source does just that (as a proof of concept).

Thanks,
Reuben
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