Re: ip6 source address selection and down interfaces

2013-02-20 Thread Alexander Bluhm
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:11:10AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Someone trying to replace some latvian boxes with bgpd/npppd mentioned a problem with v6 on carp interfaces in 'backup' state where their address was used as source address, despite there being an address on the carpdev which

Re: ip6 source address selection and down interfaces

2013-02-20 Thread Alexander Bluhm
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:36:13AM -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote: The source address selection mechanism in IPv4 is to my understanding: the first address on the interface associated with the route to the remote host The source address selection mechanism in IPv6 is to my understanding:

ip6 source address selection and down interfaces

2013-02-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
Someone trying to replace some latvian boxes with bgpd/npppd mentioned a problem with v6 on carp interfaces in 'backup' state where their address was used as source address, despite there being an address on the carpdev which was up. I don't have a proper v6 carp setup handy to test but got a

Re: ip6 source address selection and down interfaces

2013-02-19 Thread Todd T. Fries
The source address selection mechanism in IPv4 is to my understanding: the first address on the interface associated with the route to the remote host The source address selection mechanism in IPv6 is to my understanding: for each of the global addresses on a system, turn it into an integer