Hello, On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 20:29, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> writes: > > > I see no problem with the patch as it eases operating those devices. I > > would also suggest storing the ifid in the inet6_dev so it does only > > change during device creation and destruction. Otherwise I would > > recommend to use stable privacy addresses to generate the link local > > addresses. EUI-48 based LL creation should hopefully not be used anymore > > soon. > > Thanks for commenting on this. Yes, the stable privacy addresses looks > like they will solve this and other problems. But enabling them require > an adminstrator action. > > After looking more at addrconf, I started wondering if we couldn't abuse > ipv6_generate_stable_address() for this purpose? We could add a new > addr_gen_mode which would trigger automatic generation of a secret if > stable_secret is uninitialized. This would be good enough to ensure > stability until the interface is destroyed. And it would still allow > the adminstrator to select IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_STABLE_PRIVACY by entering > a new secret.
I am fine with your proposal but I would really like to see it only happen on the per-interface stable_secret instance. Thanks, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
