On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:55:28PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> It's not obvious that IFF_MULTICAST is good enough. IMHO, you should
> be able to run addrconf on non-multicast interfaces as well (e.g.,
> point-to-point interfaces, tunnels in particular).
So would it work to use this?
(flags & (IFF_MULTICAST|IFF_POINTOPOINT)) == 0
> It seems that current code already excludes IFF_NOARP interfaces
> though.
I looked at that - it doesn't help because it just disables DAD, but
still does router solicitation, and I think it also sends a MLD listener
report with the bogus link-layer address. I tend to agree that it's
incorrect to assign an address at all in this case.
Olaf
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