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Re: about violation of standards

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Wed, 24 April 2019 15:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: about violation of standards
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Alexandre Petrescu wrote on 24/04/2019 15:31:
> YEt the link-local addresses should have the ability to be manually 
> configured too, I guess.
> 
> Or are the LLs forbidden to be manually configured?

on bsd, you can't manually configure fe80::/10 link-local addresses. 
You configure the auto_linklocal flag, and then the kernel does 
everything else.  The auto_linklocal flag does not work on bsd loopback 
interfaces.  This is all a local implementation detail: other operating 
systems have different approaches, equally valid.

Nick

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