Re: ip -6 addr flush dev <device> flushes also the autogenerated link-local address

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

In article <20050302231400.GU31837@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:14:00 
+0100), Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> says:

> * jamal <1109801372.1098.228.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-03-02 17:09
> > 
> > Is this a user space problem? I think we had something along these lines
> > fixed recently. Thomas?
> 
> I didn't fix any of these but it's definitely a userspace problem.
> One can easly work around this by iterating over all scopes
> except for link local and provide the scope to flush. We'll have
> to put additional filters into print_addrinfo() if we want this
> to be default but I'm not even sure what the official policy should
> be like. Any standards on this?

I believe that flush should remove all addresses including link-local.
So, current behavior is correct.

--yoshfuji