Hi, > Never use a netmask different then 255.255.255.255 for aliases unless > they are for different network. This is the only way to get a reliable > main address.
Will do, somehow I was used to enter netmask/broadcast for any additional ip address regardless of same subnet or not. Learned something new. > Unsure about inet6. Their source address selection is so complex > and stupid that you never know what you get. But I guess you could > try a prefixlen of 128 for the secondary IPv6 addrs and see if that > helps. Does accept prefixlen 128 address, can ping, but still takes the last configured address as source (the /128). That must be wrong now?! > What do you think the purpose of 'alias' is in the inet6 context? > inet6 does not have the concept of aliases, alias is the default > behaviour. I 'assumed' that was obviously my problem. My FortiGate unit (to name just one other equipment that does not exhibit this behaviour) has the notion of ip6-address in its top level interface configuration and a sub-section 'ip6-extra-addrs' for this exact purpose. A 'prefer' keyword or something like that would be nice. That would eliminate the ambiguity for good. Marco
