From f53adae4eae5ad9f7343ff4a0fc68b468c981138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 04:01:30 +0000 Subject: net: ipv6: add tokenized interface identifier support This patch adds support for IPv6 tokenized IIDs, that allow for administrators to assign well-known host-part addresses to nodes whilst still obtaining global network prefix from Router Advertisements. It is currently in draft status. The primary target for such support is server platforms where addresses are usually manually configured, rather than using DHCPv6 or SLAAC. By using tokenised identifiers, hosts can still determine their network prefix by use of SLAAC, but more readily be automatically renumbered should their network prefix change. [...] The disadvantage with static addresses is that they are likely to require manual editing should the network prefix in use change. If instead there were a method to only manually configure the static identifier part of the IPv6 address, then the address could be automatically updated when a new prefix was introduced, as described in [RFC4192] for example. In such cases a DNS server might be configured with such a tokenised interface identifier of ::53, and SLAAC would use the token in constructing the interface address, using the advertised prefix. [...] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02 The implementation is partially based on top of Mark K. Thompson's proof of concept. However, it uses the Netlink interface for configuration resp. data retrival, so that it can be easily extended in future. Successfully tested by myself. Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Cc: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h index c4edfe11f1f7..6b35c4211f65 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ enum { IFLA_INET6_MCAST, /* MC things. What of them? */ IFLA_INET6_CACHEINFO, /* time values and max reasm size */ IFLA_INET6_ICMP6STATS, /* statistics (icmpv6) */ + IFLA_INET6_TOKEN, /* device token */ __IFLA_INET6_MAX }; -- cgit v1.2.2