Re: Dealing with ICMPv6 network unreachable.

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 05/04/2015 15:47, Alan Barrett wrote:
> People who connect to multiple disjoint networks that happen to share
> the same IP address range are unusual, and should have the lowest
> priority in considering tradeoffs where making things work better for
> one class of user causes trouble for another class of user.
> 
> Here are a few scenarios:
> 
> 1. Disconnected and re-connected to the same network after a short
> delay: Don't remove addresses on disconnect, but perhaps mark them as
> deprecated, or not to be used for initiating new outbound comnnections;
> On re-connect, verify that we appear to be on the same network, and mark
> addresses as fully usable again.

This has now been implemented and dhcpcd allows addresses to persist
when the link goes down.

Roy