Monday, October 14, 2024

Re: IPv6 static host address inside dynamic network

> On Oct 14, 2024, at 00:39, Mike Fischer <fischer+obsd@lavielle.com> wrote:
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>> Obviously, polling is an option, but I'd rather be notified by the kernel when I need to.
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> I think the suggestion made by Florian Obser earlier in this thread makes a lot of sense.
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> And if you want to get away from scripting and directly interface with the notifications, the source code of the route(8) command would probably be a good place to look for how this is done.
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sbin/route/
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> I'd be interested in what you come up with.

Thank you. And thank you Florian. I will need to look at that more, and
if I want to do something more complicated/intricate, I'll look into route.
(Portability is hard. OpenBSD has "route -n monitor -inet6", FreeBSD
has "route -6 -n monitor". :-/ )

- Chris

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