>> * Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> [2014-05-15 00:15]: >>> I don't think this is a good idea; didn't we establish the other day >>> that "ifconfig <if> eui64" already did what your +inet6 does? >> >> almost, it's ifconfig <if> inet6 eui64 - but that isn't all THAT >> intuitive. I like +inet6 as the opposite of -inet6. >>
I am rather late to the conversation. >We don't have "+" something. It is foo or -foo but not +foo. I know >that inet6 is already used for the regular addresses, but +inet6 >sounds like an inconsistent workaround for a workaround. I don't like >it. I agree. >To "enable IPv6" link-local I would rather prefer two options to put >either "inet6 eui64" (or an alias like "inet6 link-local") or an >actual inet6 address in your hostname.if. The latter should >automatically remove the flag and enable the link-local address - does >it work this way? I also agree. I do not like the word 'link-local', because it implies L2. What we are removing here is wire-local access via L3. I'd prefer to avoid the word "local" if we can... There is also a third path. That is to change the behaviour of 'ifconfig if proto', or more specifically of 'ifconfig if inet6'. But this will assuredly break someone's scripts...
