ippool: Extend pool to work with /64 prefixes
In IPv6 GPRS, we actually don't want to allocate an individual v6
address (like in IPv4), but we want to allocate a prefix. The
standard prefix lengh is 8 bytes, i.e. a /64 prefix. This patch
extends the pool to be able to work with such v6 prefixes.
Change-Id: I0cf700b6baf195a2e5fbea000531f801acaaa443
diff --git a/ggsn/ggsn.c b/ggsn/ggsn.c
index 0629f9e..9b11884 100644
--- a/ggsn/ggsn.c
+++ b/ggsn/ggsn.c
@@ -241,7 +241,11 @@
dst.len = 4;
dst.v4.s_addr = iph->daddr;
} else if (iph->version == 6) {
- dst.len = 16;
+ /* Due to the fact that 3GPP requires an allocation of a
+ * /64 prefix to each MS, we must instruct
+ * ippool_getip() below to match only the leading /64
+ * prefix, i.e. the first 8 bytes of the address */
+ dst.len = 8;
dst.v6 = ip6h->ip6_dst;
} else {
LOGP(DGGSN, LOGL_NOTICE, "non-IPv packet received from tun\n");