Re: Some comments regarding draft-ietf-ipngwg-default-addr-select-05.txt

[Erik Nordmark]

> (At least for me) RFC 2461 is not very clear for multiple-interfaces
> cases, so the selection of the outgoing interface is implementation
> dependent.

RFC 2461 explicitly states that multihoming (which should have said
multi-interfaced hosts) is out of scope.

> Our (KAME's) implementation introduces the notion of "default
> interface", which should manually be specified by the user.  The
> kernel uses the default interface as the outgoing interface in this
> case.

Is the same default interface also the default for originating multicast
packets? Or do you have a separate default when no IPv6_MULTICAST_IF
is specified?

  Erik

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