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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:22:30 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject:   Re: IPv6 DAD avoidance 
Message-ID:  <200108200922.f7K9MUU78293@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>  of "Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:17:19 %2B0900." <20010820141719Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> 

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> brian> Can anybody tell me if it's possbile to tell a given interface
> brian> not to do DAD ?
> 
> There is a kernel MIB, 'net.inet6.ip6.dad_count'.  See inet6(4)
> manpage for more detail.
> 
> However, there is no way to stop DAD for any given interfaces; only
> we have two choices, 'do DAD to any interfaces' or 'do not DAD to all
> interfaces'.

Would it be worth bringing up the subject of adding an IFF_ flag that 
can be SIOCSIFFLAGS'd into the interface with the kame team ?

Currently, ppp manages to control the link-local address every second 
time it's run on a given interface... which just looks weird :*I  It 
seems more sane to allow a program to say ``I do my own address 
discovery''.

If you think it's worth bringing up with the kame guys, can you tell 
me where I should send the mail (which list address) ?  Thanks.

> -- -
> Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA

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