On 16/03/2011 09:48 a.m., Mohacsi Janos wrote: > As RFC 4941 says: > > Changed the default setting for usage of temporary addresses to be > disabled. > > and also: > " > Additionally, sites might wish to selectively enable or disable the > use of temporary addresses for some prefixes. For example, a site > might wish to disable temporary address generation for "Unique local" > [ULA] prefixes while still generating temporary addresses for all > other global prefixes. Another site might wish to enable temporary > address generation only for the prefixes 2001::/16 and 2002::/16, > while disabling it for all other prefixes. To support this behavior, > implementations SHOULD provide a way to enable and disable generation > of temporary addresses for specific prefix subranges. This per- > prefix setting SHOULD override the global settings on the node with > respect to the specified prefix subranges. Note that the pre-prefix > setting can be applied at any granularity, and not necessarily on a > per-subnet basis. > "
The proposed modification to the Prefix Information option would enable administrators to avoid the pain of having to do this manually on each node attached to their site -- which in some cases could be impossible. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@acm.org PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
