From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "src" attribute ignored for IPv6 (preferred source address selection)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101017011205.GA10610@srv03.cluenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8215C8.8000908@httrack.com>
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:47:52AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote:
> In an attempt to change the source address in various conditions (network
> prefix, outgoing protocol, user owner id, ..), it appeared that the src
> attribute of an IPv6 route command (ip -6 route add .. src ..) was simply
> ignored.
>
> The outgoing interface can be selected, but not the preferred source
> address (see (1)), which remains always the same within an interface.
>
> If this a bug ? Or a known limitation of the kernel ?
Well, at least it was a known limitation six years ago, when I
discovered the same:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/1768.html
Unfortunately I don't have the time (and most probably not the necessary
kernel knowhow) to hack this up myself, but I'm still interested. :-)
Best regards,
Daniel
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2010-09-04 9:47 "src" attribute ignored for IPv6 (preferred source address selection) Xavier Roche
2010-10-17 1:12 ` Daniel Roesen [this message]
2010-10-29 20:11 ` David Miller
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