Re: binding + autoconfig
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> writes:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:42:58PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >> What's controlled by autoconf, then?
> > if you have route advertisement running on your network, your
> > globally-valid IP address that's generated automatically...
>
> Thanks for the info, that clears it up. What's more, finally I found
> the docs in ip-sysctl.txt. :)
>
> Now to make sure I'm not mistaken: the link-scope IPv6 address of my
> bond interface is flagged tentative. This is probably because its
> slave devices also have the same MAC, thus the same link-scope IPv6
> address, so the kernel level autoconfiguration fails at the uniqeness
> check. Right?
No clue, but it sounds not too far-fetched, so it could be true. Hey, I
don't know everything ;-)
> It's not stable, though: often I end up with three
> identical IPv6 addresses on the tree interfaces.
That sounds like a race somewhere, then. If you don't need these
link-local addresses, I wouldn't worry about it.
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