[atlas] feature requests

Philip Homburg Fri Nov 22 11:08:39 CET 2013
>
>Hi,
>
>>On 2013/11/11 19:32 , Mike. wrote:
>> Allow me to disable the processing of RA's on IPv6, so that I
>> can configure IPv6 statically and not have it overwritten by
an
>> RA.
>
>This feature has been requested by a handful of people.
However, this
>introduces more complexity in the already way too complex
network
>configuration of the probes. So we like to avoid implementing
this
>feature. Of course if there is wide spread demand for it, then
we will
>look into it.
>
>I should try it sometime, but in theory one way to give the
static
>address priority is to set all prefixes in the RA to
deprecated. On a
>'normal' network where you one prefix, it should not make a
difference
>for any of the other hosts.
>
>Philip


Hi Philip,

In the context of ~~I don't know what is going on inside the
Atlas probe, so I'll presume an easy solution~~ ...


WOuldn't a solution be to just disable the rtsol daemon when
static IPv6 addresses are configured?  If the probe does not
issue a router solicitation request, then it won't receive RA's.
 Seems to me that somewhere there is a 

	rtsol=enable

that could be changed to

	rtsol-disable

and that would resolve the issue.


Configuration would still need to be done via IPv4 using DHCP in
this instance.  But that process is already well documented.

As always, thanks for listening.

Mike.