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Re: IPv6: removal of the autogenerated link-local address of an interfac

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Subject: Re: IPv6: removal of the autogenerated link-local address of an interface still possible
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:09:14 +0100 (CET)
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Sorry for silence.

In article <20041226002322.2c2914e4.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Sun, 26 Dec 2004 
00:23:22 -0800), "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> > > Would it be not better to prevent user space tools from removal of the 
> > > (one 
> > > and only) autogenerated link-local address?
> > 
> > I don't agree. Because some user may want to remove an autogenerated
> > link-local address and add an link-local address manually.
> 
> I completely agree.

I agree (to allow users to remove auto-generated link-local address), too.

--yoshfuji

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