removing stateless auto-configured addresses/routes?

Gavin McCullagh gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie
Mon Apr 4 16:35:46 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> I doubt you'll get much interest, in my opinion, what you describe
> hasn't been a focus for neither Debian nor Ubuntu. Anyhow, the
> connection manager needs to clear IPv6 address just like it clears
> the IPv4 address when the link goes down.

I've reported a bug myself

	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646703

but I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect network-manager to remove this
address given it didn't set it?  What happens where someone isn't using
network-manager?

I just wonder if the thing that configures the v6 address (the kernel,
right?) shouldn't also take responsibility for cleaning it up -- in which
case my bug is misplaced.

Gavin




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