Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge
Hi.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:17:23 +0100
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> > Bridged interfaces retain their MACs, so they would get different IPv6
> > ULAs, which are provided by radvd from the different host.
>
> Not if they are bridged before they are brought UP
I'm not that familiar with openvswitch to make claims about the order
in which an interface brought up and bridged.
If you have such knowledge then feel free to share it with the list
please.
> or accept_ra/autoconf is disabled.
Disabling it is the whole point.
> > And get myself all kinds of unneeded trouble, or I can do:
> >
> > allow-br0 eth0
> > iface eth0 inet6 auto
> > autoconf 0
> > accept_ra 0
> > ovs_type OVSPort
> > ovs_bridge br0
>
> Ok, THIS, provides the missing info from your previous post : disable
> autoconf and accept_ra.
>
> But according to man interfaces(5), the inet6 "auto" method ignores the
> "autoconf" option. This option is specific to the "static" method.
Indeed. Thanks for the correction.
Reco
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