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From: Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
Subject: (usagi-users 03690) Re: Bug in order of multiple IPv6 addresses per interface? Newest
 added one is preferred in difference to IPv4
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:36:10 +0200
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JINMEI Tatuya / =E7=A5=9E=E6=98=8E=E9=81=94=E5=93=89 schrieb:
>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:47:36 +0200,=20
>>>>>> Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de> said:
>=20
>>> I do not favor changing this so far.
>=20
>> Hmm, would it be possible to implement a primary flag in the future?
>=20
>> BTW: Does anyone know about the behavior of *BSD for this issue?
>=20
> 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
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