On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Philip Homburg
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>I am not aware of any application doing anything more than "try to
>>open the connection again".
>>
>>How do you propose the application to react? Most applications leave
>>the source-IP selection to the operation system...
>>
>>does any OS currently change the preference order of IPv6 source
>>prefixes when it gets ICMP unreachable messages?
>
> I never bothered to automate, but I regularly switch prefixes by changing
> the preference times in RAs. That works very well.
>
> Linking general ICMP unreachable messages to a source prefix sounds very hard
> to me.

RA's are generated by the HNCP router, so the generation could take
the routing table into account (put prefixes WITH routes in preferred
places).

If the routing protocol would export the "distance" to the destination
in form of the routing table metric value, the RA generation could
even make sure that the "closest" gateway is always the preferred one.

So we can manipulate the published RAs in a way that the hosts will
take normally one the HNCP router prefers?

Henning Rogge

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