Subject: Re: [RFC] IPV6 address management

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:44:02 -0800

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:58:30 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:12:20 -0800
> 
> > What about this?
> > 
> > If it works (still testing), I'll submit it.
> 
> So what is your plan?
> 
> Make the routing daemons depend upon the non-default
> behavior in order to act correctly?
routing daemons don't deal with addresses directly now,
and getting them to do it would be painful.

> 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.

> I disagree with both plans, and with that the facility
> is basically useless.
> 
> We absolutely have to live with the behavior we have now,
> and for a long time if not forever.