From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from kirsi1.inet.fi (mta-out.inet.fi [195.156.147.13]) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913E221F1A8 for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 02:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kosame.lan (80.220.81.136) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.140.03) (authenticated as stenma-47) id 5163F40201AC6A11; Wed, 8 May 2013 12:27:47 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) From: Markus Stenberg In-Reply-To: <518A18FA.4030600@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:27:46 +0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <518A18FA.4030600@openwrt.org> To: Steven Barth X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 May 2013 02:54:43 -0700 Cc: homenet@ietf.org, Markus Stenberg , cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [homenet] pushing the bird faster X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 09:27:54 -0000 On 8.5.2013, at 12.20, Steven Barth wrote: > On 08.05.2013 11:07, Dave Taht wrote: >> Unless you wish to maintain these modifications forever, it is = helpful >> to seek consensus with the mainline developers of these tools to push >> your patches in a mutually acceptible form. I would suspect that = dnsmasq >> and odhcp6c devs would be amiable to a discussion at the very least. > Speaking for odhcp6c I have looked into the homenet changes yesterday = and I don't see it as a big hassle to merge these features into the main = branch at some point once they have an official IANA number and the = specs are somewhat stable. >=20 > Also feel free to contact me if you are thinking about getting = anything IPv6-related upstream to OpenWrt and we can discuss that or you = can of course also use the official channels, mailing lists and so on. That's underlying problem with both dnsmasq and odhcp6c forked changes - = we use IOS-specific prefix class option # that is NOT from IANA, and I'd = rather not see it in wide use for obvious reasons.=20 And as a general point on odhcp6c front, I think a better method of = expressing 'extra prefix-specificoptions' should be found than just = adding more entries to the CSV list of ENV_PREFIXES. In my experience, = long lists of CSV-style entries become rather awkward to handle if you = want to be futureproof; key=3Dvalue within (or something else) is much = better. Cheers, -Markus=