On 04/04/2013 18:51, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Hello! > > What is the proposed action if the hardware address of an interface is > changed regarding link-local addresses while the interface is up? I see > a few possibilities here but have not yet found an answer in the rfcs: > > a) generate a new link-local interface address in addition to the old one > b) drop the old one and generate a new one > c) don't change any addresses (this is e.g. current behavior in linux) > > I would be happy if you could give me some pointers.
Does it matter? It seems that all three will work properly. c) will surely only apply until the interface is restarted; then you will get b) automatically. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
