Re: Unspecified IPv6 Address

2008-01-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why certain hosts of freebsd can be configurable with unspecified (::) (all-zero) IPv6 addresses in its interfaces? RFC 4291 clearly mentions this address must never be assigned to any node. Is there is any use-case or motivation behind accepting this address in an interface? simply don't

Unspecified IPv6 Address

2008-01-23 Thread Prabhu Hariharan
Hi, Why certain hosts of freebsd can be configurable with unspecified (::) (all-zero) IPv6 addresses in its interfaces? RFC 4291 clearly mentions this address must never be assigned to any node. Is there is any use-case or motivation behind accepting this address in an interface? Regards,