direct routes and SLAAC addresses

[George Ross]

> That is probably an issue with the Direct protocol and IPv6. In IPv4,
> there is only one 'primary' address per IP range and iface, others are
> marked 'secondary' by the kernel, so we just ignore secondary ones and
> add/remove prefix when primary address is added/removed. But seems that
> in IPv6, this is not the case and there is no secondary flag.

BTW, it occurs to me that there is probably also a problem with the direct 
protocol and IPv6 "privacy" addresses, which will also come and go (and 
unlike our case with SLAAC addresses they are actually supposed to do so).
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