On Sat, 08.03.08 00:36, Callum Lerwick (seg@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:06 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > The problem is that some people want DHCP on their WLAN adhoc > > networks... I still need to figure out how the Apple connection sharing > > works; they use IPv4 LL addresses in the created Ad-Hoc network but I > > don't know how other machines get the default route to the one sharing > > its connection. Possibly the router announces itself with Avahi or > > something. > > The connection sharing box provides DHCP. Uh? You claim Apple assigns IPv4LL addreses via DHCP? Or are you saying Dan is wrong in that they use IPv4ll addresses? > > There does need to be more thought here; but I'm leaning towards > > defaulting connections created when the user explicitly shares an > > existing connection (ie, you pick "Share this mobile broadband card over > > wireless") to zeroconf. In the end there will still be booleans in the > > config to mark DHCP yes/no and zeroconf yes/no. I'm wondering if the > > zeroconf option should be mutually exclusive with any of the others; ie > > would you ever want to have a secondary IPv4 LL address at the same time > > as you have a non-LL address. > > Has ANYONE here actually read rfc3927? Link local means just that, link > local. Read the second paragraph of the abstract, and section 2.7 and > 2.8, titled "Link-Local Packets Are Not Forwarded" and "Link-Local > Packets are Local". You know, when I implemented RFC3927 in avahi-autoipd I of course didn't read it the spec. Instead I just made something toally random protocol up and afterwards claimed it actually was RFC3927. But psst, don't tell anyone! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
