Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2021-06-28

Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type

From: David Ahern <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-24 05:15:12
Also in: bpf, linux-arm-kernel, linux-doc, lkml, netdev

On 6/23/21 9:33 PM, Rocco Yue wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The difference between RAWIP and PUREIP is that they generate IPv6
link-local address and IPv6 global address in different ways.

RAWIP:
~~~~~~
In the ipv6_generate_eui64() function, using RAWIP will always return 0,
which will cause the kernel to automatically generate an IPv6 link-local
address in EUI64 format and an IPv6 global address in EUI64 format.

PUREIP:
~~~~~~~
After this patch set, when using PUREIP, kernel doesn't generate IPv6
link-local address regardless of which IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE is used.
@@  static void addrconf_dev_config(struct net_device *dev)
+       if (dev->type == ARPHRD_PUREIP)
+               return;
And after recving RA message, kernel iterates over the link-local address
that exists for the interface and uses the low 64bits of the link-local
address to generate the IPv6 global address.
The general process is as follows:
ndisc_router_discovery() -> addrconf_prefix_rcv() -> ipv6_generate_eui64() -> ipv6_inherit_eui64()
please add that to the commit message.

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