On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:42:58PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> What's controlled by autoconf, then? > > if you have route advertisement running on your network, your > > globally-valid IP address that's generated automatically... > > Thanks for the info, that clears it up. What's more, finally I found > the docs in ip-sysctl.txt. :) > > Now to make sure I'm not mistaken: the link-scope IPv6 address of my > bond interface is flagged tentative. This is probably because its > slave devices also have the same MAC, thus the same link-scope IPv6 > address, so the kernel level autoconfiguration fails at the uniqeness > check. Right?
No clue, but it sounds not too far-fetched, so it could be true. Hey, I don't know everything ;-) > It's not stable, though: often I end up with three > identical IPv6 addresses on the tree interfaces. That sounds like a race somewhere, then. If you don't need these link-local addresses, I wouldn't worry about it. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
