Hello, Is there a way to extract Router Advertisements from the kernel? I am on a network which uses IPv6 with non-64 prefix length, with DHCPv6 for address configuration, but Linux doesn't handle this even remotely correctly. Expected behavior would be to receive an RA with managed/otherconf flag, run a DHCPv6 client, and match the received address with the prefix length from the RA. As this probably requires an in-kernel DHCPv6 client there is a viable alternative - store all received prefix infos and allow user-space programs to query them (ideally in all UNIX-like systems compatible manner), so that the user-space DHCPv6 client (run by system startup scripts or by the user) can query the kernel for prefixes (to determine whether to use DHCPv6 for address configuration and to match a correct prefix length to address supplied in DHCPv6 reply). Currently ISC dhclient (and others) set the prefix length to 64, which might be what you want, but otherwise is just plain wrong (or possibly acceptable as failover if no prefix for DHCPv6 supplied address has been received). Thanks, Pavel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
