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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:51:55 -0700 From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com> To: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> Cc: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Who/What is supposed to remove IPv6 address from interface when moving from one network to another ? On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> wrote: > The kernel does not (and shouldn't) trigger anything on carrier change as that's a > site-specific/user-specific policy. Actually, it *does* trigger events on carrier change: it creates the addresses when you connect. It just doesn't delete them when you disconnect. So you can get addresses without a userspace daemon, but you can never delete them without a userspace daemon. I tried to argue that that's incorrect, but, well, the archives show how far I got. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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