Tim Chown wrote: > On 29 Apr 2013, at 20:39, Ray Hunter <v6...@globis.net > <mailto:v6...@globis.net>> wrote: > >> Christian Huitema wrote: >>>> The "problem" here is that don't have all the names/IDs we'd like. >>>> For example, using the MAC address as the Interface_ID would do for >>>> this >>>> purpose... but the the IPv6 address is tied to the MAC address, and >>>> would change upon replacement of the NIC (which is generally >>>> undesirable)... >>> >>> Undesirable by whom? For a laptop, for example, the most likely >>> cause of a MAC address change is that the user/owner used an >>> administrative command to change it, probably in an attempt at >>> getting privacy. Keeping the same IID would defeat the purpose. >>> >>> On the other hand, if I am managing a big server, I would like to >>> retain the same IPv6 addresses to avoid disrupting service. But >>> then, if I want a fixed address, I would probably ensure that by >>> configuring a fixed address, not by relying on a side effect of >>> automatic address configuration. >>> >>> -- Christian Huitema >>> >>> >>> >> Right. But a bad side effect of manually configuring fixed addresses is >> that you derail all of the good work around renumbering. >> >> It might prove operationally useful to be able to configure a static >> IID, but still continue to use of a variable network prefix (derived >> from RA). > > As > per http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02 > ? > > Tim
I hadn't seen that particular draft before, but yes. Of course you'd probably also want to be able to configure IID based ACL's, static routes etc. where the prefix was auto-prepended to the static IID portion of the config. Don't want to hijack the thread, but I see no fundamental reason why your draft couldn't be combined with Fernando's work. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
