Re: allowinterfaces cause ipv6 pd to ignore the FIRST interface
Roy Marples
Thu Feb 04 21:54:12 2016
On 04/02/2016 18:31, Peng Shao wrote:
> It is working for me. Wonderful job!
:D
>> By the way, I noticed that when PD activated an interface's ipv6
>> stack, it will automatically do the ipv4 stack as well. I am not
>> sure if this is the typical desired application scenario but at
>> least for me, I would prefer PD to touch ipv6 only and leave ipv4
>> alone because PD is strictly speaking an ipv6-only thing. If a
>> hypothetical user would "disable an interface at first, but
>> wouldn't mind using PD to assign ipv6 address on it using dhcpcd",
>> then I think most likely that user would like to avoid ipv4 on this
>> interface at all.
>>
>> But this is just my thoughts and may not of course represent most
>> of the users :)
>
> No, this is a valid point, but equally we need to allow users to say
> "now activate as normal" without interrupting dhcpcd.
>
> I'll see if I can do something for this for the next release.
>
>
> Thank you so much for consideration :)
And this should be fixed now as well :)
Something I've wanted to do for some time, but this easy idea just
popped into my head and it works!
Go try and report back please :)
Roy
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