specifically, it falls under the 'magic protocol' area of the ipv6 spec, in that essentially any given ipv6 system can dynamically allocate an ipv6 address. this requires at least rudimentary routing, iirc. that being said, this should provide suffucient of a network configuration for a system to 'plug and play' onto a v6 network. (assuming the values provided by the router advertisements are correct, and the default out route has a lead to said router, of course. ;) i personally think it's bloody stupid :) On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:20, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 17, Alexander Koch <koch@tiscali.net> wrote: > > >So where is the default route coming from? Nothing here > The kernel will add one anyway. It has a low metric and will be > overridden by user-specified routes. > I understand this is mandated by some RFC, or at least by the > interpretation of the linux network developers. > > -- > ciao, > Marco -- Daniel O'Neill <doneill@thelodgingco.com> The Lodging Company
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