Linux source address selection vs. EUI-64

Paul Timmins paul at timmins.net
Sat Nov 13 21:57:01 CET 2010


> Anyway, this thread is diverging from the original question; how can I make a
> statically assigned address take preference over an auto-configured address on
> a Linux host?
>   
Have your program bind the desired address when opening the socket. Easy 
stuff. This is easily done in most things people want it for (like say, 
irc) by editing the configuration for the IRC client, or the bouncer. 
Other applications probably have similar, or don't matter (ie: wget)

-Paul


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