Static vs SLAAC - Static expected to be preferred?

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Wed Apr 27 14:44:51 CEST 2011


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:35:13PM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> I said I'd ask on this mailing list what the common expectation is. So
> if a host has addresses it has acquired via SLAAC (or less likely
> stateful DHCPv6), with non-infinite lifetimes, and you've
> administratively configured a static IPv6 address on the same interface
> (with default infinite preferred and valid lifetimes), would you expect
> the static address to always be used as a source address for outbound
> connections?

Absolutely yes.

Thanks for looking into that and following up!

Best regards,
Daniel

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