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Re: source address selection

To: sekiya@xxxxxxx (Yuji Sekiya)
Subject: Re: source address selection
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:09:22 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: kusune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <st23dsmhytg.wl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Yuji Sekiya" at Dec 29, 99 06:38:03 pm
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello!

> But IMHO, I think that source address selection is more useful in
> IPv6 environment than IPv4 environment. Because IPv6 allows us to
> assign some IPv6 addresses to one interface, not alias interfaces.

I do not understand. IPv6 and IPv4 are absolutely identical here.

> If you have no plan to implement source address selection
> into IPv4 protocol stack, how about eating kusune's patch
> or implementing the feature into IPv6 stack at first ?

In 2.5.

Alexey

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