macos Sierra with CGA address?

Fernando Gont fernando at gont.com.ar
Wed Dec 14 23:50:18 CET 2016


On 12/14/2016 05:07 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2016, at 11:45, Holger Zuleger wrote:
> 
>>> support. I don’t think any other common OS implements SeND, does it?
>> Not that I'm aware of, so I was on the way to bury the idea of secure
>> neighbor discovery.
>>
>> It seems that some implementation for Linux exist, and also an Windows
>> Application (see page 23 on
>> http://www.rmv6tf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IPv6_SeND_PPT1.pdf)
> 
> FreeBSD has been shipping with the SeND implementation bits in the
> kernel for years (since 2010?) now.  Ana Kukec did that.  And there’s a
> port for user space bits.
> 
> The WinSeND work read a lot like Ana’s paper back then but I have no
> idea about the code.
> 
> I am happy that half a decade later support for SeND does spread across
> the OSes.

Hopefully all this SeND machinery is not being pushed in as a
heavyweight RFC7217. You don't need all the certs-related stuff for
getting a non-predictable stable-per-network IID.

Thanks!

Cheers,
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