2 Apr
2012
2 Apr
'12
11:57 a.m.
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 16:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Peter Eckel lists@eckel-edv.de wrote:
- Each interface on an IPv6 enabled machine has several addresses.
- 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.