Subject: Re: Link-local addresses "inheritance" by gif(4)
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/08/2006 16:46:00
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:26:31AM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> [...]

> Note how all gif-devices seem to inherit their link-local address from ra=
l0.
> I understand that, lacking a unique interface identifier on their own they
> have to fallback on something else, but why ral0? What's the logic behind
> the choice?=20

=46rom your listing: first one on the list (possibly: first driver
initialized that offers an interface identifier for ID-less interfaces).

	-is
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