Subject: Re: [RFC] IPV6 address management

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:56:14 -0800

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:51:25 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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:
> > 
> > > 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