From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] IPV6 address management Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:56:14 -0800 Message-ID: <20090108135614.23aed603@extreme> References: <20090108121220.789325a6@extreme> <20090108.125830.142298950.davem@davemloft.net> <20090108134402.6e88438f@extreme> <20090108.135125.13529853.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:36916 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752100AbZAHV4P (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:56:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090108.135125.13529853.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:51:25 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:44:02 -0800 > > > On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:58:30 -0800 (PST) > > David Miller wrote: > > > > > Or is it to gradually get people to use the non-default > > > (via distribution sysctl settings etc.) and eventually > > > make it the default? > > No plan to ever change the default. Just ship with sysctl.conf > > setting. > > If the distributions all ship with the sysctl changed > to the non-default, our "default" is pretty meaningless > wouldn't you say? It seems the only logical way to undo a poor choice in the original design