On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:23:23AM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > Joost Witteveen wrote: > > Sami Haahtinen wrote: > > > >> I think > >> ifupdown should have an inet6 autoconf method that would just bring up > >> the interface. > > The following patch to the ifupdown source does just that. Would it be > > OK to send this patch upstream? > > ...SNIP... > > This now works OK with the following interfaces file: > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet6 autoconf > It looks good by me, only thing i can think of is that the desription > should say that this is to be used in IPv6 only situations. Just so that > people don't think that this is the key to trigger autoconfiguration, > which is also something that the description could mention. Possibly in IPv4 it should trigger IPv4 Zeroconf instead? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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