[avahi] avahi-autoipd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 04.09.06 22:07, chris mcharg (chris at outtrack.org) wrote:

A quick update:

> Apple has this page on mixed routable and ip4ll addresses:
> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1357.html
> I have no idea of the default routing settings of most of the linux  
> distributions, but it seems debian at least doesn't have the settings  
> for responding to a host with an ipv4ll address when a routable  
> address is set.  Do you have any plans for providing defaults/ 
> guidance for these?

I now added a reference to this article to avahi-autoipd's man page:

http://avahi.org/changeset/1318

Thank you for the tip!

> In the current avahi-autoipd.action script, a label is set when using  
> the ip tool, but no alias is defined when setting the address with  
> ifconfig.  Was there a reason for that? (sorry... I don't know a lot  
> about interface labels/aliases)

I modified the default action script to configure a classic alias
interface if only ifconfig is available:

http://avahi.org/changeset/1319

Thanks for your suggestions!

Lennart

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