Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4189] New: IPv6 link local addresses are not assigned correctly on multiple-bonding enviromrnts

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

In article <420C0D05.6020408@xxxxxx> (at Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:40:21 -0800), Rick 
Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> says:

> At present, for IPv4 if someone changes the MAC address of an interface, 
> existing TCP connections don't really care right?  The ARP caches will be 
> updated with a new IPv4 to MAC translation and happiness and joy ensues.
> 
> So, what would happen to TCP connections over IPv6 using link-local 
> addresses? 
> If the old address is taken away (deprecated), and a new address generated, 
> doesn't that mean that TCP connections (using link-local addresses anyway) 
> will 
> fail on a MAC change?

One thing: we won't delete it but deprecate it.

--yoshfuji