[PATCH 1/2] C/R: Support for IPv6 addresses on network devices

Dan Smith danms at us.ibm.com
Tue Mar 30 11:07:04 PDT 2010


BH> Well, in most cases you could ignore the global addresses as well,
BH> since if they were auto-configured they'll be generated again on
BH> the next Router Advertisement.  That's why they're removed on an
BH> ifdown, but the permanent ones aren't (any more).

So, I just checked... All of my link-local addresses have the
IFA_F_PERMANENT flag (0x80) set as well.  What am I missing?

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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
email: danms at us.ibm.com


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