dhcpcd-discuss

On 21/06/2014 10:31, Roy Marples wrote:
> > So Comcast will give out three kinds of addresses. If you do an ia_na
> > you'll get a ::/128 address. If you do an ia_pd you'll get a ::64
> > address by default. And ...
> >
> > If you do an ia_pd and "ask for one" (electronically) you'll get a
> > ::/60 with four bits for your internal subnets. [I know /60 is the
> > magic number but I don't know if you can get other values between /60
> > and /64.]
> dhcpcd does not support requesting a PD length at this time.
> Should be fairly easy to add though

Now it does, patch here:
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/ci/b2870734cde05ae17ca36c6d1b62e00a56e2854d?sbs=0

> We won't be able to "shave off" as such. What we can do is request a 
> length
> and then "add to" for each int assignment to make your desired prefix 
> length
> per interface, defaulting to 64.
>
> I think I'll go like so
>
> id_pd 7/::/60 (rest of syntax here)
> id_pd ::/60 (rest of syntax here)
> id_pd /::/60 (rest of syntax here)
>
> Of course, there is no guarantee you'll get a /60 from the server.

The stanza is like so

ia_pd 7/::/60 (rest of syntax here)

You could of course use this to request an IA_NA address as well.
Please test if it works for you and let me know!

Thanks

Roy