Subject: Re: [RFC] IPV6 address management

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:11:32 -0800

David Miller 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?

They could check and take corrective action or tell the user
to set it one way or another.  Robust and complex apps already
have to check all sorts of things anyway.

> Or is it to gradually get people to use the non-default
> (via distribution sysctl settings etc.) and eventually
> make it the default?
> 
> 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.

It could be argued we need to have the default behaviour stay
the same, but that's no reason to keep things difficult for
people/programs flexible enough to deal with change.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
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