From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Feb 26 16:15:58 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D32F16A4CE
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:15:58 -0800 (PST)
Received: from kirk.rvdp.org (kirk.rvdp.org [80.126.101.63])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4400F43D2F
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:15:57 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from rvdp@rvdp.org)
Received: (from rvdp@localhost)
	by kirk.rvdp.org (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id i1R0Frf09069;
	Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:15:53 +0100 (CET)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:15:53 +0100
From: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Message-ID: <20040227001550.GB8949@rvdp.org>
References: <20040225160126.GC20199@rvdp.org>
	<20040225234352.GA70119@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20040225234352.GA70119@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i
cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 autoconf fails on multihomed host
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:15:58 -0000

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 23:43:52 +0000, David Malone wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:26PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> >         if [ ${rtsol_available} = yes -a -n "${rtsol_interfaces}" ]; then
> >                 # Act as endhost - automatically configured.
> >                 # You can configure only single interface, as
> >                 # specification assumes that autoconfigured host has
> >                 # single interface only.
> 
> It is odd - RFC 2462 actually seems to explicitly allow multihomed
> hosts, Section 5 says:
> 
>    For multihomed hosts, autoconfiguration is performed independently
>    on each interface.
> 
> however there might be an implementation detail that prevents this
> working properly.

Hmm, could be. I suppose each interface needs its own routing
(or reachability) table which holds the default router for that
interface? I think the BSD stack supports only one routing table.

	rvdp