Re: Question about NetBSD implementation of IPv6 SLAAC and RFC4941

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Hi List

As we seem to be cutting the cruft from the kernel recently I think it's time to 
remove the kernel handling of router advertisements and leave it to dhcpcd - 
there's nothing dhcpcd can't do that the kernel can for RA handling, but the 
reverse is not true.

Roy

On 05/04/2020 18:50, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> Roy Marples maintains dhcpcd, and is also a NetBSD committer, so I'll drag him 
> into the conversation, he's best placed to say how he intends to take dhcpcd.
>
> Roy?
>
> Best,
> Alistair
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 00:44, Fernando Gont <fernando%gont.com.ar@localhost 
> <mailto:fernando%gont.com.ar@localhost>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Alistair,
>
>     It seems that NetBSD ships with dhcpcd enabled by default.
>
>     Quick question: is the plan to maintain the kernel support for SLAAC
>     (and hence a kernel based implementation of rfc4941bis would be
>     desirable), or is such code being phased out, and hence I should just
>     focus on a dhcpcd-based implementation of rfc4941bis?
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Cheers,
>     -- 
>     Fernando Gont
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