Re: DHCPv6, IPv6 net tools

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:40:03PM -0800, David W. Hankins wrote:
> 	ifconfig foo0 inet6 down
> 	ifconfig foo0 inet6 up

Wouldn't you know it, just when I've given up searching for a
solution and resorting to asking someone, I find my answer in
/sbin/ip.

Nevermind.

I'm still curious about this tho:

> While I'm asking on this subject, DHCPv6 introduces the concept of
> a 'preferred' lifetime.  The objective is to encourage applications
> to move from an old address to a new one over a grace period before
> the old address fully expires.
> 
> Have either the linux kernel or net-tools folks spent any time
> thinking about how this will be implemented and signalled?  I'm
> not seeing anything related in the ifconfig manpage.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.	-- Jack T. Hankins

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