[avahi] Shifting interfaces

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Mon Aug 27 11:35:03 PDT 2007


On Mon, 27.08.07 11:29, Zachary Loafman (zml+avahi at zml.net) wrote:

> Hmm. Is avahi-autoipd supposed to notice if someone slaps a new,
> routable address onto an interface? It looks like there's code in
> there to notice it, but I'm curious if this is supposed to work:

Yes, avahi-autoipd subscribes to network configuration changes and
removes its own address if a routable address is assigned. (Unless
--force-bind is passed).

And it works ... on Linux.

> My guess from glancing is that avahi-autopid should notice the address
> disappearing and reconfiguring the IPv4LL address, but I'd like to
> confirm before I dig in.
> 
> (And yes, if this is a bug, it's yet another BSD issue.)

Yes, probably.

Lennart

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