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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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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

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