IPv6 nodeinfo default behaviour

[Fernando Gont]

On 07/22/2014 04:38 PM, 神明達哉 wrote:
> 
>>> usually subjective, and different people may have different opinions.
>>> Personally, I often find "ping6 -w" quite useful for debugging
>>> purposes, and I think limiting its use to link-local by default gives
>>
>> Agreed. Perhaps we should enable it only when we need to debug.
>>
>>> a reasonable level of defense (and, disabling it by default would
>>> reduce the usability pretty much).  So I'd rather prefer keeping the
>>> current default, but, again, other people may have a different
>>> preference.
> 
> To be clear, in case I wasn't: in my opinion it would become useless
> for debugging unless it's enabled by default, so I would like it to be
> (kept) enabled by default (note that it's already limited to
> link-local by default).  But I understand YMMV.

While node information message can be interesting at times, since they
are only supported in BSDs and can only be used when on-link, it's not a
debugging mechanism you can rely on. As a result of that, my 2cents
would be "disable them by default". If in your particular setup woul'd
benefit from them, you can always override such default on system
installation.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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