On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 05:48:16AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Reyk Flöter <reyk.floe...@googlemail.com> [2014-05-15 01:04]:
> > > On 15.05.2014, at 00:46, Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdt...@bsws.de> wrote:
> > > * Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> [2014-05-15 00:15]:
> > >> I don't think this is a good idea; didn't we establish the other day
> > >> that "ifconfig <if> eui64" already did what your +inet6 does?
> > > almost, it's ifconfig <if> inet6 eui64 - but that isn't all THAT
> > > intuitive. I like +inet6 as the opposite of -inet6.
> > We don't have "+" something. It is foo or -foo but not +foo. I know that 
> > inet6 is already used for the regular addresses, but +inet6 sounds like an 
> > inconsistent workaround for a workaround. I don't like it.
> 
> just inet6 doesn't work, since that is already used to show all inet6
> addrs. 
> i find +inet6 very intuitive...

This should just die. Did you ever do ifconfig em0 inet or ifconfig em0 inet6?
I never did and I have a few interfaces with a lot of IPs on them.
It is a useless gimmick of ifconfig.
 
> > To "enable IPv6" link-local I would rather prefer two options to put
> > either "inet6 eui64" (or an alias like "inet6 link-local") or an actual
> > inet6 address in your hostname.if. The latter should automatically
> > remove the flag and enable the link-local address - does it work this
> > way? 
> 
> as said many times, yes it does.
> 

-- 
:wq Claudio

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