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====== Matthew Iselin: IPv6 Implementation ======

===== Notes =====

I'll update this with notes and links to websites I find as I'm working on the project that might be handy later on. The notes here may also be the foundation for the IPv6 documentation later on.

==== Useful RFCs ====
  * [[http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2460.html|RFC 2460 (IPv6 Spec)]]
  * [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861|RFC 4861 (Neighbour Discovery Protocol)]]
  * [[http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2462.html|RFC 2462 (IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration)]]
  * [[http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3315.html|RFC 3315 (DHCPv6)]]

==== Code ====
  * [[http://pedigree-project.org/projects/pedigree/repository/revisions/develop/entry/src/modules/system/network-stack|Pedigree's network stack]] with IPv6 support (new BSD license)

==== Repo Notes ====
  * Developing on branch 'develop'
  * Will bring commits into master when they are ready for upstream merging. This way I can rebase them and merge several related commits into one larger commit for submission upstream (or mix several "oops" commits into the commit that originally contained the mistake).
  * Can bring upstream changes into develop branch via master

==== Notes to Self ====
  * Can't get network interface's MAC address within a TCPIP protocol (eg ICMP, UDP). Will need to have a user begin the process of autoconfiguration for a link-local address manually!
  * Link-local address must always be present, globally routed address can be obtained via router advertisements or DHCPv6 (and may not exist). How do we manage this for potential users?
  * Probably worth fixing DNS to use AAAA records earlier rather than later.
  * [[soc/2011/pcmattman/notes/packetdumps/start|Packet Dumps]] and relevant notes.

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