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From: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Amelkin <a.amelkin@yadro.com>
Cc: raviteja bailapudi <raviteja28031990@gmail.com>,
	Ratan Gupta <ratankgupta31@gmail.com>,
	OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Sunitha Harish <sunithaharish04@gmail.com>,
	"johnathanx.mantey@intel.com" <johnathanx.mantey@intel.com>,
	"wak@google.com" <wak@google.com>
Subject: Re: Add network RoutingPolicyRules at OpenBMC Networkd
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:04:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZSkySyyLSmmonxiW@home.paul.comp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0dc4e1ff3904a9c8f34c951611d3992@yadro.com>

Hello,

A short clarification inline.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:18:33AM +0000, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> I may be missing some use-cases, but I gather link-local addresses are primarily
> needed for discovery of newly installed OpenBMC
> 
> machines before they are properly integrated into a DHCP-based or statically
> configure network. Taking that into account, in my
> 
> humble opinion, the best way would be to have link-local addressing enabled for
> just eth0.

To avoid potential of confusion it's important to note that the
reasoning applies to legacy IP only, for IPv6 every interface normally
has a link-local address at all times.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-13 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-11  8:26 Add network RoutingPolicyRules at OpenBMC Networkd raviteja bailapudi
2023-10-13 11:18 ` Alexander Amelkin
2023-10-13 12:04   ` Paul Fertser [this message]
2023-10-13 13:17   ` Sunitha Harish
2023-10-14 18:29     ` Alexander Amelkin
2023-10-18  5:24       ` raviteja bailapudi

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