On 2011-12-30, Amit Kulkarni <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: >> On 2011-12-30, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> wrote: >>> * <chipits...@gmail.com> [2011-12-30 05:21]: >>>> why does OpenBSD choose vlan379 ? how can I make it use vlan200 for >>>> all outgoing traffic except bgp communication ? >>> >>> for wildcard binds (INADDR_ANY aka 0.0.0.0, connect without bind has the >>> same effect) the address is chosen based on the route to the destination. >> >> IPv6's source address selection logic is so awesome there's a 23-page >> RFC to describe it. and it's not even deterministic! if you exhaust the >> set of 8 priorities to follow, the OS can choose whichever address it >> likes! clever eh? you couldn't make this up. >> >> guess which company authored the RFC. >> > > cisco? and no i didn't look > >
Nope. (Actually you can work-around this insanity with v6 by setting "pltime 0" when you configure any addresses that you _don't_ want to be used as a valid source).
