> Note that how the system picks those addresses are still not "clearly"
> specified. It may not make sense to pick all addresses
> associated with an
> interface. The reason for having multiple addresses is that
> SCTP can failover
> to another address if the primary fails. But if all the addresses are
> associated with an interface, failover may not make sense at
> all. There are
> still a lot of work to be done in this area in the draft...
If the multiple addresses have different prefixes, then the packets will be
routed through different paths. This provides a useful failover situation,
from a failing provider to a valid provider, even if the interface is the
same.
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