27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
9:42 p.m.
On 02/27/2015 04:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
ifconfig is NOT a sane tool these days.
It predates the 169.254.00 link local addresses, so it likely wouldn't "know" they aren't to be routed. With IPv6, link local addresses are based on the MAC address and start with FE80. Since they're based on the MAC address, there's no need to pick a random number.