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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
