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    ipv6: addrconf: use stable address generator for ARPHRD_NONE · cc9da6cc
    Bjørn Mork authored
    
    
    Add a new address generator mode, using the stable address generator
    with an automatically generated secret. This is intended as a default
    address generator mode for device types with no EUI64 implementation.
    The new generator is used for ARPHRD_NONE interfaces initially, adding
    default IPv6 autoconf support to e.g. tun interfaces.
    
    If the addrgenmode is set to 'random', either by default or manually,
    and no stable secret is available, then a random secret is used as
    input for the stable-privacy address generator.  The secret can be
    read and modified like manually configured secrets, using the proc
    interface.  Modifying the secret will change the addrgen mode to
    'stable-privacy' to indicate that it operates on a known secret.
    
    Existing behaviour of the 'stable-privacy' mode is kept unchanged. If
    a known secret is available when the device is created, then the mode
    will default to 'stable-privacy' as before.  The mode can be manually
    set to 'random' but it will behave exactly like 'stable-privacy' in
    this case. The secret will not change.
    
    Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Cc: 吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
    Acked-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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