Re: IPv6 autoconf fails on multihomed host

From: David Malone <dwmalone_at_maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:43:52 +0000
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:26PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
>         if [ ${rtsol_available} = yes -a -n "${rtsol_interfaces}" ]; then
>                 # Act as endhost - automatically configured.
>                 # You can configure only single interface, as
>                 # specification assumes that autoconfigured host has
>                 # single interface only.

It is odd - RFC 2462 actually seems to explicitly allow multihomed
hosts, Section 5 says:

   For multihomed hosts, autoconfiguration is performed independently
   on each interface.

however there might be an implementation detail that prevents this
working properly.

	David.
Received on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 14:43:54 UTC

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