[systemd-devel] Router Advertisement in systemd

[Daniel Wang]

Thank you.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:36 AM Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>
> On Mo, 05.11.18 11:09, Daniel Wang (wonderfly at google.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Recently I realized that systemd-networkd implements its own Router
> > Advertisement and NDISC. While I am perfectly fine with using it, I
> > wonder what motivated it given that the Linux kernel already
> > implemented both. Is it features? Flexibility? Stability?
>
> for starters, if you want the DNS info embedded in it (and other stuff
> like that) then the in-kernel one won#t give it to you.
>
> > Also, what else in the ipv6 stack is duplicated in systemd-networkd?
>
> duplicated from what? I mean, the whole thing is a duplicate of
> NetworkManager if you so will, or of dhclient, and so on. Nothing
> networkd implements hasn't been implemented before. it just integrates
> stuff better, that's all.
>
> Lennart
>
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat



-- 
Best,
Daniel
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