On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 11:42:25AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:11:45PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> > 
> > >> 	rtsol can't do that.  More correctly, client (end host) does not
> > >> 	have control over it.  Spec says we configure default route and/or
> > >> 	prefix as the router says, when client gets router advertisement from
> > >> 	the advertising router.
> > >Damn.
> > >Ahh well, just another way ipv6 is going to suck.
> > 
> > 	I don't get it... what is the reason why you need to configure
> > 	addresses manually?  for PTR records in DNS?
> > 
> > 	if you manually configure clients, you are making renumbering harder...
> > 	if you autoconfigure clients, when you renumber and you reconfigure
> > 	routers, the prefixes gets propagated to end nodes automatically.
> 
> Thats fine.
> 
> However, I think that we should have a way to set the interface
> identifier manually. DAD on the link-local address will detect double
> use. How difficult would it be to make this settable?

Oh, reading your later statement, I see that this can be done by setting
the link-local address?

Regards,
	-is