- linux does not accept prefixes for SLAAC unequal to 64 bits: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/ipv6/addrconf.c#L2741
- when networkd tries export such a route to the kernel it will get -EINVAL and
set the whole device into a failed state.
- this patch will make networkd ignore such prefixes for SLAAC,
but process other informations which may contain other prefixes.
- Note that rfc4862 does not forbid prefix length != 64 bit
This adds in4_addr_is_localhost() and in4_addr_is_link_local() that only take
an IPv4 "struct in_addr", to match in_addr_is_localhost() and
in_addr_is_link_local() that that a "union in_addr_union".
This matches the existing in4_addr_is_null() call that already exists.
For IPv6 glibc already exports a set of macros, hence we don't add similar
functions in6_addr_is_localhost(). We also drop in6_addr_is_null() as
IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED() already provides that.
This reworks sd-ndisc and networkd substantially to support IPv6 RA much more
comprehensively. Since the API is extended quite a bit networkd has been ported
over too, and the patch is not as straight-forward as one could wish. The
rework includes:
- Support for DNSSL, RDNSS and RA routing options in sd-ndisc and networkd. Two
new configuration options have been added to networkd to make this
configurable.
- sd-ndisc now exposes an sd_ndisc_router object that encapsulates a full RA
message, and has direct, friendly acessor functions for the singleton RA
properties, as well as an iterative interface to iterate through known and
unsupported options. The router object may either be retrieved from the wire,
or generated from raw data. In many ways the sd-ndisc API now matches the
sd-lldp API, except that no implicit database of seen data is kept. (Note
that sd-ndisc actually had a half-written, but unused implementaiton of such
a store, which is removed now.)
- sd-ndisc will now collect the reception timestamps of RA, which is useful to
make sd_ndisc_router fully descriptive of what it covers.
Fixes: #1079
