(usagi-users 03690) Re: Bug in order of multiple IPv6 addresses per interface? Newest added one is preferred in difference to IPv4
Peter Bieringer <[email protected]>
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JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 schrieb: >>>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:47:36 +0200, >>>>>> Peter Bieringer <[email protected]> said: > >>> I do not favor changing this so far. > >> Hmm, would it be possible to implement a primary flag in the future? > >> BTW: Does anyone know about the behavior of *BSD for this issue? > > As far as I know, BSD variants don't have the notion of *explicit* > 'first/primary' or 'secondary' address. But if your main concern is > to prefer particular addresses as the source address of outgoing > packets, you'd be able to achieve the goal by configuring appropriate > policy table entries (per RFC3484). Hmm, can I do this on Linux, too for preferring a source address (out of configured addresses from the *same subnet*)? I only found: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/linux-rfc3484.html But this is more related to destination addresses. Thank you very much. Peter -- Dr. Peter Bieringer http://www.bieringer.de/pb/ GPG/PGP Key 0x958F422D mailto:[email protected] Deep Space 6 Co-Founder and Core Member http://www.deepspace6.net/ OpenBC http://www.openbc.com/hp/Peter_Bieringer/ Personal invitation to OpenBC http://www.openbc.com/go/invita/3889