Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

[Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

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