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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:37:58 -0500
To: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_net@webcom.it>
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On Dec 13, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Andrea Campi wrote:
> I'd like to live complications such as this for a later stage. I'd say
> if you have a multihomed machine you better know how to configure it;
> the primary target for my work are laptops and other clients. That is
> not to say I don't care; rather, I need to limit how much I chew at a
> time. For now I only work on one interface.

Indeed, handling link-local addressing by only looking at one interface 
at a time is something the zeroconf spec seems to encourage if the 
implementation does not yet handle IP collision avoidance across 
multiple interfaces.

-- 
-Chuck