Jeff Haran wrote: > 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. > What are the kernel versions? You should update the SUSE kernel to get the result you want. - 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
