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Option to define address of router in the RA

Open jordipalet opened this issue 10 years ago • 1 comments

It must be possible to define what address you want to use in the RA. My understanding is that right now, the RA takes the link-local address automatically created with the Interface ID.

However in many other platforms, is possible to decide if you want to use the Interface ID or something different, for example, I want to use FE80::1.

Right now it seems not possible.

Using list ip6addr 'fe80::1/64', in the given interface, will work for now if you manually configure FE80::1 as the default GW in client machines, but the RA still uses the Interface ID.

jordipalet avatar Aug 07 '15 23:08 jordipalet

I haven't looked into this in detail, but I have a hunch that it'd be better to add support to netifd to set a specific (similar to an IPv6-Token) style link-local address for a given interface. That way you can have memorable addresses like FE80::1 without having to resort to multiple link-local addresses or any changes to odhcpd.

Alphix avatar Nov 06 '25 06:11 Alphix