[Olsr-dev] IPv6 Unique Local Addresses

[Henning Rogge]

Am Thursday 27 November 2008 22:46:45 schrieb Alina Friedrichsen:
> Hi Henning!
>
> > I think the problem is that nobody in the OLSR.org team has lot's of
> > experience with IPv6... but it sounds like an important step for
> > autoconfiguration.
>
> In IPv6 you don't need a complex algorithm for address autoconfiguration,
> you can simply take your MAC address or a 64 bit random number. The
> probability for an address conflict is much less then a human error in
> manuall configuration.
In OLSRv1 (that is what we are using today) this would work, but ipv6 itself 
is a problem with OLSRv1 because the address fields are getting HUGE.

In OLSRv2 (which can use address compression for address blocks) even with 
"autoconfig" it would be better to use a real subnet so that you compress the 
blocks (common header/suffix-compression).

But the IPv6 autoconfig might be a good step to get a "permanent" adderss in 
an OLSRv2 IPv6 network. :)

Henning

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