[Xorp-users] questions about IPv6 get_link_local_address

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Wed Oct 7 20:03:39 PDT 2009


XORP at sipxx.com wrote:
> I am not so sure it really should do this totally automatically just 
> because OSPFv3 requires a particular kind of address. So may other 
> modules and this can become very non-transparent if each module just 
> goes about acquiring its own parameters.
> This what the 'default-system-config' parameter really seems to be good for.
> What I would like to suggest however, is to provide additional 
> qualifiers to this parameter so one can differentiate what kind of 
> system configuration gets imported.
> so for example:
> ....
>     default-system-config {
>        address-link-local-ipv6: true
>        address-link-local-ipv4: false
>        address-ipv4: false
>        address-ipv6: true
>     }
>   
How about we just probe for anything not specified by the user?  We can 
do the probe
in fea so all of the modules can get the same information.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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