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Re: [benc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Linux "enable EUI-64 token format"]

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [benc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Linux "enable EUI-64 token format"]
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:36:20 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <9500.988862146@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Thu, 03 May 2001 13:17:38 +1000,
> Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Patch against 2.4.4 to remove all traces of CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64 and
> >CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB.  EUI64 is now the only supported address scheme.
> >I have not even compiled this patch, it is "obviously correct", except
> >for the change to rt6_redirect() in net/ipv6/route.c.  Is that code
> >still required, even when eui64 is the _only_ option?

[snip patch]

Please also add a line in Configure.help under CONFIG_IPV6 describing that
EUI-64 is the only method used now; so people don't wonder where they've
went.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords


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