jaap: I have work in progress patches to finish IPv6 support in ippool. It's been working for me for a while

→ CODE REVIEW 3808: 16843 IPv6 addresses in ippool should work (NEW) | illumos.org/issues/16843

has one functional regression (only does /N prefixlen instead of /XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask) which is why I haven't pushed it for review.

sommerfeld: that's awesome! nice work

sommerfeld: wat this ported from FreeBSD? I noticed in the man pages for BSD ippool that IPv6 is supported

Not in a rush but this is actually gonna make a difference to me. Ideally I'd invest in learning illumos as my platform of choice, but I'm still in doubt for a couple of reasons

IPv6 feature parity was/is one

The other is a "proper" routing daemon like Free Range Routing or at least Bird

That bit could be worked around in a zone running a different OS I guess, but I was thinking to do some plumbing in a global zone with a routing daemon that has awareness of other zones status

I'd like to have a routing daemon that advertises /32's and /128's on zones to the rest if the network, only if those zones are up

jaap: no, was my own patch to what's in illumos-gate

the kernel part of ippool ipv6 support was already present -- it was just missing the userland CLI.