> On 27 Mar 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:00, Pekka Savola wrote:
>> > > Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT have any 6to4
>> > > pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated).
>> > 
>> > There is no such statement anywhere that I know of.  Please correct me if
>> > I'm wrong.  Hosts indeed have 6to4 pseudo-interfaces.
>> 
>> You're right. However, I think it's just common sense that a host, which
>> sets up a 6to4 pseudo interface by default, should also automatically
>> disable it if a router is sending RAs with 2002:xyz:: prefixes.
>> Otherwise the host implementation is broken.

it should disable it for any received RA, i.e when it is on a native link.

> Maybe, maybe not.  In many cases, the node implementations include both 
> host and router behaviour.  In such case, automatically disabling 
> something may not be the best option.
>
> This may be something worth fleshing out when/if we progress 6to4 to DS 
> at some point :-)

a host connected to a native link should not automatically enable a
6to4 pseudo interface.

/ot

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