Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names
On 2015-05-12 22:31:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:08:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre
> <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> >On 2015-05-11 18:04:14 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> In IPv6, routers advertise prefixes. If a new prefix comes, end
> >> systems configured for SLAAC will allocate an IP address in this
> >> prefix and begin to use it.
> >
> >On this subject, end systems under Debian are configured for SLAAC
> >by default. :-(
>
> I consider that a feature.
Well, having some of the network traffic (more precisely, connections
to machines that have an IPv6 address) re-routed to some unknown
machine on the local network is not a nice feature.
IMHO, such a feature should be enabled only by the network management
system, not by default at the kernel level.
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