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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:12:50 -0400
From:      Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?56We5piO6YGU5ZOJ?= <jinmei@wide.ad.jp>,  Loganaden Velvindron <logan@elandsys.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, bz@freebsd.org, George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv6 nodeinfo default behaviour
Message-ID:  <53D5DBD2.9050107@gont.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <CAJE_bqdjNU1t4n65k%2Be9RkG%2BC-6xC0Ab599jcDwe4GD5UsuBwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/22/2014 04:38 PM, 神明達哉 wrote:
> 
>>> usually subjective, and different people may have different opinions.
>>> Personally, I often find "ping6 -w" quite useful for debugging
>>> purposes, and I think limiting its use to link-local by default gives
>>
>> Agreed. Perhaps we should enable it only when we need to debug.
>>
>>> a reasonable level of defense (and, disabling it by default would
>>> reduce the usability pretty much).  So I'd rather prefer keeping the
>>> current default, but, again, other people may have a different
>>> preference.
> 
> To be clear, in case I wasn't: in my opinion it would become useless
> for debugging unless it's enabled by default, so I would like it to be
> (kept) enabled by default (note that it's already limited to
> link-local by default).  But I understand YMMV.

While node information message can be interesting at times, since they
are only supported in BSDs and can only be used when on-link, it's not a
debugging mechanism you can rely on. As a result of that, my 2cents
would be "disable them by default". If in your particular setup woul'd
benefit from them, you can always override such default on system
installation.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@si6networks.com
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