Re: IPv6 Stable Private Addresses RFC 7217

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 04/06/2014 10:46, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > The next dhcpcd release will have support for IPv6 Stable Private 
> > Addresses,
> > RFC 7217.
> > http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/ipv6-stable-privacy-addresses/
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217
>
> So it's a userland implementation if I understand correctly ?

Yes

> No plans for a kernel-based implementation ?

No. Why would you want it in the kernel?
Part of it needs to be userland anyway, to create, store and re-use the 
host secret key.

Thanks

Roy