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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:43:52 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 autoconf fails on multihomed host
Message-ID:  <20040225234352.GA70119@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20040225160126.GC20199@rvdp.org>

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:26PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
>         if [ ${rtsol_available} = yes -a -n "${rtsol_interfaces}" ]; then
>                 # Act as endhost - automatically configured.
>                 # You can configure only single interface, as
>                 # specification assumes that autoconfigured host has
>                 # single interface only.

It is odd - RFC 2462 actually seems to explicitly allow multihomed
hosts, Section 5 says:

   For multihomed hosts, autoconfiguration is performed independently
   on each interface.

however there might be an implementation detail that prevents this
working properly.

	David.


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