From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 28282] New: forwarding turns autoconfiguration off Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:49:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20110208234937.GA9710@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20110208133408.7d447e6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110208.134421.39185637.davem@davemloft.net> <4D51BFCE.2070405@msgid.danisch.de> <20110208.143046.246534138.davem@davemloft.net> <20110208224411.GA9674@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <4D51CAE8.6070706@msgid.danisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org To: Hadmut Danisch Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:57945 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755804Ab1BHXwq (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:52:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D51CAE8.6070706@msgid.danisch.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hadmut Danisch : [...] > Since Linux machines can - in contrast to Windows desktops and cisco > routers - can be a host and a router at the same time, even on the same > interface (i.e. use a autoconf IPv6 address as a host and an fe80:: > address as a router address). > > So I'd consider this in a different way. From my point of view the > decision between host and router must be done per assigned IPv6 address > (or address range) and not per IPv6 interface. o^O Afaik networking does not operate this way in the kernel. Really. May I suggest you to have some sleep and see how your (dhcpv6 enabled ?) DSL router can be convinced to collaborate with the existing tools under Linux _without_ modifications ? -- Ueimor