Question on address configuration

[pekkas@netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Edward Lewis wrote:
> E.g., Could (linux) ifcfg-eth0 have a line IPV6ADDR="::3" which tells the
> router solicitor to append that to the router's prefix?
> 
> I understand autoconf, and have been able to set that up, getting
> prefix:enet-number as the IPv6 address.  Like I said, by playing with the
> ifconfig (or appropriate network interface configuration command) I can
> also just set up the 128 bit address.

No, that isn't possible.

I think this would be an interesting development; basically a simple 
implementation of user-space router solicitation client would be required.

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