On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:28:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:15:23PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > I am beginning to think that zeroconf should, in the ifupdown world, > > either be a distinct configuration method or an option for the dhcp > > method. > > It would be helpful if the program were to monitor the configuration of > the interface and only bring up a zeroconf address in the absence of any > other configuration (though if it were to do this it ought to look out > for active use of a zeroconf address before deconfiguring it to ease > failover).
It is explicitly okay to have an interface with both a IPv4 routable address and an IPv4 link-local > Something (either the script or the program) also ought to check to make > sure that the interface it is being configured for is one that uses ARP > before running. zeroconf should work on any interface which implement IEEE802 and has an IP layer. As far as I know that would mean they also have an ARP layer to perform duplicate address detection. If you know of any way I can programatically determine whether a specific interface will use ARP to do hardware <-> IP address resoultion, I'm certainly interested. Thanks, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
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