On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Richard Draves wrote:
first of all, thank for your reply. although i am surely not an expert
kernel-level programmer, i am very interested in this argument.
> [Resending from my Hotmail account. I fear the original did not make it out
> to the list.]
maybe because of problems with the net at your workplace, lately? ;-)
don't be offended, it happens to everyone :-(
> >i wonder if there is a working implementation of dest/src address
> >selection that is fully conformant to this spec. i'd really like to know
> >how the implementation issues have been solved.
>
> Yes, I have implemented it. It's pretty easy to implement. Basically when
> getaddrinfo gets more than one address back from DNS, it uses an ioctl to
> call down to the IPv6 stack to sort the addresses. Then all the real work is
> in the IPv6 stack, where there is direct access to information like the
> interfaces, addresses, routing table, etc.
is there an opensource or free-software implementation? i'd REALLY like to
take a look a it. i guess you have implemented this feature only in w2k,
haven't you?
> Another solution is to keep an invalidation counter
this is a much more performant and interesting strategy than resorting
a list every second. maybe you can add these considerations in the next
version of your paper.
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Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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