In your previous mail you wrote: > B) is usually correct, although this depends on the semantics of the lower > layer in question. If it is Ethernet, by changing the MAC address, you have > made a new interface and so the old address end point has gone away. It is > usually best to drop the link and restart layer 2 at that point, as any > switch you are connected to will flush the necessary tables at that point, > giving the best chance of being left in a working state. Deprecating the > link local is therefore pointless, and the Linux behaviour is simply wrong.
=> I deeply disagree: you assume a binding between layers 2 and 3, in particular between addresses, which does *not* exist. There is no issue to use any legal link-local address on a particular Ethernet device, and this is fully independent of the MAC address. Regards [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
