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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:37:57 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS
Message-ID:  <20060824223756.GC40213@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <44EE22E7.6000700@shapeshifter.se>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:06:31AM +0200, Fredrik Lindberg wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >
> >It just occured to me that the daemon could handle this without any
> >interaction with dhclient or the static interface configuration.  In the
> >mode where you only want an LLA if there isn't another address it's a
> >simple matter of watching the routing socket for messages and a)
> >removing the LLA if an IPv4 address other than 0.0.0.0 is configured on
> >the interface and b) (re)starting the process of obtaining an LLA when
> >all other addresses have been removed.  The daemon should be listening
> >to the routing socket anyway because it should only run when the
> >interface has link which requires it to exit when the link goes down
> >similar to dhclient.  I really need to go look at the code and see what
> >you're doing now. :)
>=20
> Well, I'm doing just that...except it's not the routing socket but the
> netdev filter of the kqueue system. Could be change to the routing
> socket.

It looks like you'd need to switch to the routing socket to be able to
make decisions based on address changes, but the basic flow should be
the same.

-- Brooks

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