Hi all, On a PC with Fedora 5 installed on it, eth0 is "automagically" assigned a IPv6 link local address derived from its MAC address independently of whether the link is physically up or not. On a PC with Suse 10.1 installed on it, eth0 is not assigned a link local address until the link is physically up, and the address is lost when the link goes down. I'd like the link local address to be assigned to the interface independently of link state on this machine like it does with the Fedora machine. I've modified /etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf to comment out the INTERFACE line, e.g.: INTERFACES="eth0" has been replaced by: # INTERFACES="eth0" and did a reboot since it seems that the interface configuration is controlled by ifplugd, but this still results in no link local address being assigned and attempts to ifup eth0 result in: "Sorry, there is already an instance of ifplugd for eth0 running." I've even tried killing the ifplugd process and then running ifup eth0. That results in another instance of ifplugd being started and still no link local address for eth0. Any clues as to how I should go about making Suse behave like Fedora in this regard would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Haran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
