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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/netinet6')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION | 23 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION b/sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION index f6151601f58..acb891e1231 100644 --- a/sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION +++ b/sys/netinet6/IMPLEMENTATION @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: IMPLEMENTATION,v 1.4 2000/02/25 07:34:26 itojun Exp $ +$OpenBSD: IMPLEMENTATION,v 1.5 2000/02/28 11:58:11 itojun Exp $ # NOTE: this is from original KAME distribution. # Some portion of this document is not applicable to the code merged into @@ -115,9 +115,8 @@ draft-ietf-ngtrans-tcpudp-relay-00.txt: Neighbor Discovery is fairly stable. Currently Address Resolution, Duplicated Address Detection, and Neighbor Unreachability Detection -are supported. In the near future we will be adding Proxy Neighbor -Advertisement support in the kernel and Unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement -transmission command as admin tool. +are supported. In the near future we will be adding Unsolicited Neighbor +Advertisement transmission command as admin tool. Duplicated Address Detection (DAD) will be performed when an IPv6 address is assigned to a network interface, or the network interface is enabled @@ -166,6 +165,22 @@ If this troubles you, please contact KAME team and/or modify nd6_maxndopt in sys/netinet6/nd6.c. If there are high demands we may provide sysctl knob for the variable. +Proxy Neighbor Advertisement support is implemented in the kernel. +You can configure it by using the following command: + # ndp -s fe80:1::1234 0:1:2:3:4:5 proxy +You need to fill in scope index into the address - see 1.3.3. +There are certain limitations, though: +- It does not send unsolicited multicast NA on configuration. This is MAY + behavior in RFC2461. +- It does not add random delay before transmission of solicited NA. This is + SHOULD behavior in RFC2461. +- We cannot configure proxy NDP for off-link address. The target address for + proxying must be link-local address, or must be in prefixes configured to + node which does proxy NDP. +- RFC2461 is unclear about if it is legal for a host to perform proxy ND. + We do not prohibit hosts from doing proxy ND, but there will be very limited + use in it. + 1.3 Scope Index IPv6 uses scoped addresses. It is therefore very important to |