[systemd-devel] networkd with radv advertised prefixes

brane2 brankob at s5tehnika.net
Thu Jul 10 02:27:49 PDT 2014


Dne 10. 07. 2014 09:11, piše brane2:
> Dne 10. 07. 2014 08:14, piše brane2:
>> Dne 09. 07. 2014 17:06, piše Tom Gundersen:
>>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov 
>>> <v.tolstov at selfip.ru> wrote:
>>>> As i see, networkd now able to do dhcpv6, what about configuring
>>>> interfaces to accept radv messages and configure it interfaces? What i
>>>> need to do on systemd-networkd side?
>>> Currently that is not supported, but it is definitely something we
>>> want. So if you are interested in extending our libraries to cover
>>> this usecase, that would be awesome.
>>
>> I don't want to inject noise in signal of your conversation, but 
>> doesnt kernel itself do client side of ipv6 router 
>> solicitation/advertisement ?
>>
>> As I understood it, whole point of ra is to be so simple so that it 
>> doesn't need any special SW component on the client side and to be 
>> able to
>> initialize automatically within interface activation.
>>
>> Branko
>

> Version 215 doesn't have docs for dhcpv6, so this is probably just in 
> latest dev version I can't check, but just in case am asking for 
> equivalent functionality here.
> Otherwise, such dhcpv6 would be useless for most clients...
>
>

Also, since systemd is supposed to be compact and fast and as 
self-sufficient as practical, I suppose calling bash or similar scripts 
from it would be far too much of a kludge.
Maybe you could have some hooks for code that could be linked-in at 
runtime and compiled from some boilerplate source to achieve similar 
functionality ?




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