Hello! > I just discovered that after an interface is downed on a > Linux 2.4.16-4GB box and then brought back up, the > site-local address of the interface gets tossed - meaning > that there are only the IPv4 address and the IPv6 link-local > address present on the interface. Look into rfc2462. link-local addresses are revalidated as well, only the process of validation takes 1 second and does not require a prefix advertising daemon on the segment or a preset static prefix. Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html