Re: Dealing with ICMPv6 network unreachable.

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 04:25:40PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> 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.

thanks !

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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