Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:50:43 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> To: Marek Zarychta <zarychtam@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>, net@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freeBSd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Implementation of RFC 7217 [A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers, with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)] Message-ID: <c04c29d6-720b-4b4d-907f-b946332700bb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <703c9298-d206-418b-84dd-25256c53322b@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> References: <45b17684-75ef-4953-b59a-3c3b483ba21b@FreeBSD.org> <703c9298-d206-418b-84dd-25256c53322b@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>
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On 12/20/25 10:20, Marek Zarychta wrote: > On 6.04.2025 16:49, Guido Falsi wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have recently implemented and tested the patch at [1], which >> implements RFC 7217, about generating IPv6 addresses that are constant >> through reboots, but do not expose the MAC address of the machine, not >> being in any way derived by those. >> >> I'd like to get comments, testing and review for this patch, with the >> objective of getting approval to commit it to head once it is >> streamlined enough. >> >> BTW I'd like to thank cognet for his suggestions and help with the >> patch, in particular his help in finding the correct way to implement >> the dad_failures counter. >> >> >> And thanks in advance to anyone willing to give feedback! >> >> >> [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49681 >> >> > > Hi Guido, > hi all, > everything works perfectly in 16.0-CURRENT and stable/15. Would it be > possible to officially MFC this patch[2] to stable/15, given that 15.0- > RELEASE has already been published? Hi, Yes, I plan to merge this to stable soon. But at present I'm a little busy and overwhelmed with daily life and work so I was planning to do this in a short while. I'll be starting to work on MFCing this soon though. -- Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>home | help
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