Linux source address selection vs. EUI-64

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Den 13. november 2010 23:07 skrev Mark Smith
> <nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> følgende:
> > I'd expected that when there were multiple equal candidate source
> > addresses on an interface, the largest preferred life time would become
> > the tie-breaker
> 
> If so, would a privacy address ever get picked?


In that case you'd mark any static addresses with preferred lifetime 0,
(ie. as deprecated), so they won't be used for outgoing connections.

I like the suggestion of using the preferred lifetime as a tie breaker.


	Geert
 

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