From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 14:27:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B9E16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B301943D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1CMRL2h000848; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:24 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i1CMRLBF000846; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:27:21 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Brian Reichert Message-ID: <20040212222718.GB30335@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040212193059.GX2429@numachi.com> <20040212194042.GZ2429@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SkvwRMAIpAhPCcCJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040212194042.GZ2429@numachi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: question: source address on interface w/ aliases? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:27:32 -0000 --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--