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From: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se>
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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS
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Pat Lashley wrote:
> 
> The problem with that is that we want to support the use of both on the 
> same link. So we'd either need to allow more than one keyword, or have 
> 'DHCP', 'LLA', 'LLA+DHCP', etc. Neither of those is very attractive. I 
> think it would be cleaner to have something like:

The magic words aren't mutually exclusive, they are dealt with
individually. They could be named LLA4, LLA4FALLBACK and will
work together with the other options (DHCP, WPA, etc).

> 
>        ipv4-link-local-always="bge* fxp1"
>        ipv4-link-local-fallback="fxp0"

I find this scheme way too different from how other interface
configuration is done.

Fredrik Lindberg