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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:06:31 +0200
From:      Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS
Message-ID:  <44EE22E7.6000700@shapeshifter.se>
In-Reply-To: <20060824220314.GB40213@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <AC7E9152833F0BCEA60635E7@garrett.local> <44EE1F7B.5000500@shapeshifter.se> <20060824220314.GB40213@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> It just occured to me that the daemon could handle this without any
> interaction with dhclient or the static interface configuration.  In the
> mode where you only want an LLA if there isn't another address it's a
> simple matter of watching the routing socket for messages and a)
> removing the LLA if an IPv4 address other than 0.0.0.0 is configured on
> the interface and b) (re)starting the process of obtaining an LLA when
> all other addresses have been removed.  The daemon should be listening
> to the routing socket anyway because it should only run when the
> interface has link which requires it to exit when the link goes down
> similar to dhclient.  I really need to go look at the code and see what
> you're doing now. :)

Well, I'm doing just that...except it's not the routing socket but the
netdev filter of the kqueue system. Could be change to the routing
socket.

Fredrik Lindberg




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