Native support for AutoIP (aka LLA, RFC 3927).

David Horn dhorn2000 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 04:03:48 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Martin Garon <mgaron at pleora.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need to implement AutoIP in my embedded FW that uses a snapshot of FreeBSD
> 4.4 network stack.
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> I could not find any support for it in the latest development cvs tree. Any
> chance it is somewhere that I missed?
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> If there is no support, anyone could suggest a good approach to this? I am
> thinking porting libpcap in order to access the data link layer to
> intercept/inject some ARP packets.
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> All comments welcomed,
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Check out the Avahi implementation of IPv4 Link Local (RFC 3927).  In
ports under net/avahi-autoipd

Good Luck

-_Dave H


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