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Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy



On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 18:26:26 +0100, martin f krafft
<madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>also sprach Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [2012.11.04.1013 +0100]:
>> >Maybe for the time being it will be easier and safer to have ifupdown 
>> >wait until DAD is finished?
>> 
>> How does one find out about that?
>
>% ip -6 addr show dev eth0 | grep "2001:db8::deb1:46.* tentative"
>    inet6 2001:db8::deb1:46/64 scope global tentative
>
>Once DAD completes, the "tentative" goes away.

That does not catch the case where not all RAs present on the network
have been received and processed, which admittedly enters the real of
"event based processing" since this can happen any time, not just at
init time.

Greetings
Marc
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