Hi Tim,
This is a wonderful idea!!
Do you by any chance know whether Sun has a patent on this?
Is it possible for me to adopt a variation of this idea in my
implementation?
Thanks to everyone for sharing your thoughts, much appreciated !!
Thanks & Regards,
Vijay
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Tim Chown<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 07:28:31AM +0100, David Malone wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:40:20PM +0530, Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote:
>> > Is there a standard solution for this kind of problem?
>>
>> On some OSes it is possible to control the host part of the
>> autoconfigured address by manually configuring a link local address
>> before the interface is brought up. The host part of this address
>> is then used for the rest of the autoconfiguration process. I've
>> done this on older versions of FreeBSD.
>
> Solaris has a pretty nice feature for tokenised v6 autoconf - if you
> have say a DNS server and want it on <prefix>::53 you can simply put
>
> token ::53/64 up
>
> in /etc/hostname6.<interface>.
>
> This was quite handy when we looked at renumbering.
>
> --
> Tim
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