[Olsr-dev] MainIp and SrcIpRoutes do not work

Teco Boot (spam-protected)
Mon Sep 6 15:17:29 CEST 2010


Op 6 sep 2010, om 10:05 heeft Henning Rogge het volgende geschreven:

> So IPv6 packets with a global-unique scope destination address would choose 
> the localhost global unique IP as their source address ?

This depends on implementation (in OS) and policies in use.
RFC3834 says:
   Rule 2:  Prefer appropriate scope.
   Rule 5:  Prefer outgoing interface.
Rule 2 is stronger than rule 5.
So yes, the global address is selected as source address.
But there may be other policies.

Teco



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