Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
) Fcc: +sent-mail On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:59:19PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:35:36AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: That's not buggy: Yes it is, if this only existed in /etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet6 static Oh, you're thinking of the Debian

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:55:51PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: [Disabling zeroconf when an address is allocated otherwise.] Actually I read it entirely the other way -- the RFC recommends *against* doing it the way that has been done on these platforms. The behaviour it's complaining about is

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:15:23PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: I am reading RFC 3927 Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses and I notice that it says. IPv4 Link-Local addresses should therefore only be used where stable, routable addresses are not available (such as on ad

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Anand Kumria
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

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:06:21PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:28:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: 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

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:04:25AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:06:21PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:28:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: It would be helpful if the program were to monitor the configuration of the interface and only bring up a

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:21:41PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: For the time being I think that the cleanest thing to do is to add a zeroconf method to the inet and inet6 address families. Initially the Note that zeroconf should not be used with IPv6 - that includes its own link local allocation