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Re: autoconfiguring inet6 with ifup/down



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?

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