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From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>
To: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com>, iwd@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: IPv6 Privacy Extension support?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 19:54:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240809175445.GA25@magnesium.vonhaugwitz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70e5936f-c789-4f56-a275-e1b559ea27fe@gmail.com>

Hi James,

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 05:44:39AM -0700, James Prestwood wrote:
> I was still not sure exactly what needs to be done. If the sysctl setting is
> all thats needed, this is an easy feature, but you had said setting that
> manually still doesn't enable the privacy extensions? Is the issue maybe
> that IWD removes the wlan0 interface on startup? So setting that sysctl
> setting manually, then starting IWD, is clearing it?

I've looked a bit deeper into the source code. It looks like iwd uses
the ell library for network configuration and ell seems to hard code the
EUI-64-based Interface Identifier for the IPv6 address[ell/netconfig.c].

Best regards

Hannes

[ell/netconfig.c] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git/tree/ell/netconfig.c?id=4acbb92c0513644900078c348d972ef5e48fdc4c#n760

      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-09 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-01 14:46 IPv6 Privacy Extension support? Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-03-04 12:30 ` James Prestwood
2024-03-04 19:32   ` Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-03-04 21:40     ` Grant Erickson
2024-03-06 12:19       ` James Prestwood
2024-08-04 21:01         ` Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-08-05 12:44           ` James Prestwood
2024-08-06 17:38             ` Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-08-09 17:54             ` Hannes von Haugwitz [this message]

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