Re: sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr only recogniced on interface start?

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <F5812425CD96109163291692@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 30 Aug 
2004 10:09:46 +0200), Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> during playing around with RFC3041 capability in Linux kernel, I recognized
> that the toggle (e.g. net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr) in sysctl is only
> recognized if interface state changes from down to up, which means you
> can't enable RFC3041 on an already running interface.

Not quite true. net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr is recognized, but 
new temporary addresses is created only when new public address is created
(by specification).

> Is this 
> 
> a) by design
> b) temporary issue, will be solved later
> c) bug, will be solved soon

a

and even b; we can probably extend our implementation 
to create temprary address when net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr is changed 
from 0 to 1.

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