On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:06:31AM +0200, Fredrik Lindberg wrote: > 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.
It looks like you'd need to switch to the routing socket to be able to make decisions based on address changes, but the basic flow should be the same. -- Brooks
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