Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:21 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: question: source address on interface w/ aliases? Message-ID: <20040212222718.GB30335@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040212194042.GZ2429@numachi.com> References: <20040212193059.GX2429@numachi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402121133540.10794-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040212194042.GZ2429@numachi.com>
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--SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:35:06AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > My expectation was that the primary IP address would be used. > >=20 > >=20 > > The primary IP address on the interface referred to in the routing table > > entry that is chosen for the first packet.. > > (last time I looked) >=20 > Such was my expectation. But: is this a BSD-specific implementation? >=20 > If I catch a kernel doing otherwise, can I say 'Aha! That's a bug > based on documented standards' ? Since Solaris switching to doing round-robin in something like 2.4 or 2.5 (7-8 years ago) I doubt you'll have much luck arguing with Sun and most any other implementation could point to them as a reason for their choice. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAK/3DXY6L6fI4GtQRAlsoAKCtyMWFym0/rDObJ0s7vPwPTZTySwCgqsLV EyePpDNFMNxoUTTCBknXEh0= =XrId -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ--
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