From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: geert@hendrickx.be
Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 28512] IPv6 SLAAC address preferred over static one as source address
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:13:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330.021301.191408290.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110330091115.GA8520@boris.ghen.be>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert@hendrickx.be>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:15 +0200
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:00:25 +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>> The script posted at:
>>
>> http://www.davidc.net/networking/ipv6-source-address-selection-linux
>>
>> to mark the addresses as deprecated.
>
> That requires you to know the SLAAC address (and thus the MAC address) in
> advance, so not always applicable. It's also no longer "stateless auto
> configuration" if you have to hardcode the address in your startup config.
I said there was an existing workaround, I did not say it was perfect.
And in that context it's reasonable for me to require real guidance
from the IETF before we make a change.
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2011-03-30 9:11 ` [Bug 28512] IPv6 SLAAC address preferred over static one as source address Geert Hendrickx
2011-03-30 9:13 ` David Miller [this message]
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