Re: 5.6, IPv6: is autoconf set by default?

2015-01-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 06:09:21PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/01/10 14:54, Florian Obser wrote: > > I don't think this is entirely correct. eui64 enables IPv6 on an interface > > by setting a link local address. For lo0 it also sets ::1. > > I'm unsure what eui64 was supposed to do >

Re: 5.6, IPv6: is autoconf set by default?

2015-01-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/01/10 14:54, Florian Obser wrote: > I don't think this is entirely correct. eui64 enables IPv6 on an interface > by setting a link local address. For lo0 it also sets ::1. > I'm unsure what eui64 was supposed to do > when IPv6 was on by default and there was no way to disable it. Historica

Re: 5.6, IPv6: is autoconf set by default?

2015-01-10 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 10/01/15(Sat) 14:54, Florian Obser wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 02:07:49PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > [moved from misc@] > > > > On 2015-01-08, Josh Grosse wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:20:46PM +, Florian Obser wrote: > > > > > >> [...] > > >> > > >> eui64 Fil

Re: 5.6, IPv6: is autoconf set by default?

2015-01-10 Thread Florian Obser
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 02:07:49PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > [moved from misc@] > > On 2015-01-08, Josh Grosse wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:20:46PM +, Florian Obser wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> > >> eui64 Fill the interface index (the lowermost 64th bit of an IPv6 > >>

Re: 5.6, IPv6: is autoconf set by default?

2015-01-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
[moved from misc@] On 2015-01-08, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:20:46PM +, Florian Obser wrote: > >> [...] >> >> eui64 Fill the interface index (the lowermost 64th bit of an IPv6 >> address) automatically. > > But as I understand this, EUI64 isn't about