[CentOS] transition to ip6

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Peter Eckel <lists at eckel-edv.de> wrote:
> > 1. Each interface on an IPv6 enabled machine has several addresses.
> > 2. Except for the Privacy Extension address(es), auto-configured a
> How do applications choose the correct outbound address in that
> scenario?  That has always been a problem when using multiple ipv4
> addresses on the same interface in combination with firewalling, etc.
> where the source address matters.

Typically the routing table does a lot of work.   Much like 127.0.0.0/8
the mask of a link-local will make it unprefered by 'public' traffic.
There is also a syntax for specifying the outbound interface for
traffic.

See <http://wmmi.net/documents/BasicIPv6.pdf> slide 24 - 26.


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