On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:58:44PM +0800, Kacheong Poon wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > The RFC says that LLAs SHOULD NOT be manually configured. > > > > I believe that language allows Solaris to give short thrift to anyone > > using LLAs manually. > > True. But allowing a sys admin to set LLAs in more > than one interface by choice does not really cause > much harm. If a sys admin wants to do some experiments, > why should it be prohibited? Granted, we can always > say that the source is there, recompile it to get rid > of the restriction. But does this really help us?
The RFC explains why it's bad to manually configure LLAs. And though it doesn't say MUST NOT, it does say SHOULD NOT, and that provides enough cover. And while this SHOULD NOT does allow us to allow manual configuration of LLAs, we ought to have a good reason to ignore that SHOULD NOT, and any reason rejected by the IETF is not a very good reason for us to use for justifying an opposite decision.
