[support] Does mip6daemon support DHCPv6?

[Angel Bartomeu Bonillo]

Thank you for your quick answers.
I'll tell you if I check it.

Greetings

2009/4/20 Arnaud Ebalard <arno at natisbad.org>

> Hi,
>
> Angel Bartomeu Bonillo <angelbartomeu at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So, how does the mip6daemon detects the new configured IP addresses?.
>
> Via netlink.
>
> > Does it detect them once the kernel has already configured the new IP
> > through the standar stateless procedure or does the mip6daemon itself
> > take part in the stateless configuration procedure?
>
> In fact, UMIP disables kernel processing of RA and emission of RS. It
> sends RS directly and then processes received RA in order to configure
> addresses (via netlink). It is only when it receives the notification
> that it knows the address as been configured (which triggers the
> movement). UMIP also install the routes by itself (with specific metric
> based on configured interface preference).
>
> > If the mip6d doesn't really do the stateless autoconfigutation procedure
> by
> > itself, why isn't it able to detect and bind an IP configurated by
> DHCPv6?
>
> Well, if an external process (say a DHCPv6 daemon) configures an IP on
> an interface and a route, the address will be seen by UMIP via netlink
> (i.e. this should be ok) but chances are high the metric of the route
> will be incorrect (too low priority, i.e. too high value like 1024) and
> will prevent anything to happen with that interface/address.
>
> Can you test if I am correct?
>
> Cheers,
>
> a+
>



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