luci-mod-network: change IPv6 suffix to token
authorDavid Härdeman <[email protected]>
Sun, 5 Oct 2025 06:22:15 +0000 (08:22 +0200)
committerPaul Donald <[email protected]>
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:23:34 +0000 (20:23 +0200)
The term "token" is widely used, e.g. in the relevant internet draft [1],
ip-token(8), systemd-network(5), NetworkManager [2], etc.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02
[2] https://networkmanager.dev/docs/api/1.32.10/settings-ipv6.html

Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <[email protected]>
modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/dhcp.js

index e5c083babda5ad6fc57d6740056430cc89a457cb..af23fa2433f9fe883a2ec643de6ade9d7b362b54 100644 (file)
@@ -858,8 +858,9 @@ return view.extend({
                });
 
                so = ss.option(form.Value, 'hostid',
-                       _('IPv6-Suffix (hex)'),
-                       _('The IPv6 interface identifier (address suffix) as hexadecimal number (max. 16 chars).'));
+                       _('IPv6 Token'),
+                       _('The hexadecimal <abbr title="Address suffix"><a href="%s">IPv6 token</a></abbr> for this host (up to 16 chars, i.e. 64 bits).')
+                       .format('https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02'));
                so.datatype = 'and(rangelength(0,16),hexstring)';
 
                so = ss.option(form.DynamicList, 'tag',