get rid of the eui64 address

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Fri Oct 19 13:30:55 UTC 2018


Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> >>>
> >>> BTW do you know the diffrence between the "accept_rtadv" and
> >>> "autoconf" flags in ifconfig?
> >>
> >> The accept_rtadv is interface's attribute and it is shown in the "nd6
> >> options" line, but the autoconf is address's attribute.
> > 
> > ifconfig(8) says that 
> > 
> > 
> >      autoconf
> >              Set a flag to accept router advertisements on an interface.
> > 
> >      -autoconf
> >              Disable autoconfiguration.
> > 
> > This is unclear.
> 
> Seems your ifconfig(8) is a bit out of day.

My ifconfig(8) is from 11.2-RELEASE.

> My manual says:
>      autoconf
>              Set the IPv6 autoconfigured address bit.
> 
>      -autoconf
>              Clear the IPv6 autoconfigured address bit.
> 

I have no idea when setting the autoconfigured address bit manually
could be necessary, but at least it makes sense.



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