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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bug 28512] IPv6 SLAAC address preferred over static one as
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
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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.