Static vs SLAAC - Static expected to be preferred?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:51:34AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> With my suggested mechanism, statics would be preferred by default,
> because they have infinite preferred and valid lifetimes. If you want a
> host to use non-static addresses for outbound connections, but have a
> static address for an inbound connections, you'd configure the static
> address with a zero second valid lifetime, and leave the valid lifetime
> as infinite. In other words, the static address is permanently
> deprecated, and therefore not preferred for outbound connections.

Shouldn't that be "zero second *preferred* lifetime"?

Otherwise: yes, that sounds very reasonable to me.  Full control to the
user, and well-defined behaviour.

Gert Doering
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