Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:21:10 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se> Subject: Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS Message-ID: <20060823212110.GD27961@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <C408C9E0406302DF5EE12E67@garrett.local> References: <44E9F991.7020309@shapeshifter.se> <DD49A62B2AB4E38804FB10B6@garrett.local> <44EA1926.2000501@shapeshifter.se> <9C04919EE684029A410DE208@garrett.local> <44EAC40E.9000904@shapeshifter.se> <3E654CC0217F90E20FCD806E@garrett.local> <44EC90B7.6090908@shapeshifter.se> <44ECB0F2.9040300@FreeBSD.org> <C408C9E0406302DF5EE12E67@garrett.local>
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--UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:12:20PM -0400, Pat Lashley wrote: > >If no one else steps forward, I will be glad to lead the charge to get an > >implementation of this committed. Before I do though, we'll need to get= =20 > >some > >basic questions answered (some of which have already been discussed here= ). > > > >1. What are the other *BSDs doing in this area? > >2. What are the linux flavors doing? > >3. What is the minimal set of features we should support? (I think this= =20 > >list > >starts with LLA, but that's just a gut feeling atm.) >=20 > I would agree that LLA is part of the minimal set; and as I mentioned=20 > before, it is the only part for which there is currently no FreeBSD=20 > solution. It should be possible to enable LLA on a per-NIC basis in=20 > rc.conf; and it should be possible to have both LLA and non-LLA addresses= =20 > on the same port so that a FreeBSD host can easily operate in a mixed=20 > environment. (This also makes it easier for portable machines to handle= =20 > being moved between a zeroconf-based environment and a more traditional= =20 > DHCP environment.) I don't see how we can do the fallback stuff with our current infrastructure. You could do it with profile.sh, but our current infrastructure isn't really suited to it. In some ways what we really need is an all knowing IPv4 address configuration program that can probe the link and decide if it should a) use a static IP, b) use DHCP, or c) use an LLA. It's possible we could do this in a shell script, but I'm not sure we'd want to. -- Brooks --UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE7MbFXY6L6fI4GtQRApwfAKC015TZUTHng/4OPmCqYTo8UWOfVQCeLZcz wYBpTfHzggq7ThCTpO6OgAc= =umaF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UfEAyuTBtIjiZzX6--
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