From owner-freebsd-net Tue Feb 26 10: 8:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp [202.249.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1552637B43F for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([3ffe:501:4819:2000:f8ad:ffb5:f9be:fffd]) by shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (8.11.6/8.9.1) with ESMTP id g1Q9RTo12949; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:27:29 +0900 (JST) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:27:28 +0900 Message-ID: From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= To: Aaron Angel Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prefix command outdated? In-Reply-To: <3C796E9C.1010306@myrealbox.com> References: <3C796E9C.1010306@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.7.5 (Too Funky) Emacs/21.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan. MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:52:12 -0500,=20 >>>>> Aaron Angel 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message