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. > > > > > > 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) > > Such was my expectation. But: is this a BSD-specific implementation? > > 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 -- 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
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