[Dnsmasq-discuss] verification of how RA works.

[Simon Kelley]

On 26/11/12 16:08, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I believe that RA will work in the manner described below but have not
> verified/tested this yet.
> 
> If there are 4 IPv6 (gateway) addresses specified on an interface and
> one of those addresses has a dhcp-range specified, then having a
> dhcp-range=<ipv6-addr, ra-only specified for the other three address
> will result in:
> 
> 1. state-full RA for the IPv6 subnet with the dhcp-range specified.
> 
> 2. state-less RA for the other three subnetworks.
> 
> Yes, it is not clear to me why one would define multiple subnets on the
> same "fabric" but that is a capability in libvirt for virtual network
> interfaces.
> 

Please test it. I'm feeling cautious today, so I'll go as far as to say
that what you describe is how it should work, it's how I'd expect it to
work, and if it doesn't work like that it's a bug. It's quite likely
that no-one has ever done the test before, so please try it.


Simon.