Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:27:28 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: Aaron Angel <aangel@myrealbox.com> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prefix command outdated? Message-ID: <y7vpu2soanz.wl@condor.jinmei.org> In-Reply-To: <3C796E9C.1010306@myrealbox.com> References: <3C796E9C.1010306@myrealbox.com>
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>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:52:12 -0500,
>>>>> Aaron Angel <aangel@myrealbox.com> said:
> Out of curiousity, why is the prefix command being phased out?
From KAME's latest prefix(8):
HISTORY
The prefix command first appeared in WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol stack kit.
Previously, this command was used to manipulate prefixes separately from
interface identifiers, intending to be used for prefix renumbering. How-
ever, it had been known that the manipulation mechanism was not friendly
with traditional address management engine in the kernel. Thus, the KAME
developers decided to invalidate the prefix manipulation mechanism, and
to clarify the entire address/prefix manipulation in February 2001.
Since then, this command has almost been obsoleted. All users should now
use ifconfig(8).
(Hmm...FreeBSD's releases still have an old version of the man page.
We should merge the man page as well.)
> And is
> there a way to assign an address based on a prefix and EU64 address to a
> device using ifconfig, or do I have to write a script? I haven't found
> anything in the man pages regarding this.
The current prefix(8) is exactly the script for this purpose.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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