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 Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prefix command outdated?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,=20
>>>>> Aaron Angel <aangel@myrealbox.com> said:
> Out of curiousity, why is the prefix command being phased out?
=46rom 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 fr=
om
interface identifiers, intending to be used for prefix renumbering. H=
ow-
ever, it had been known that the manipulation mechanism was not friend=
ly
with traditional address management engine in the kernel. Thus, the K=
AME
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=20
> 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=20
> 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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