[131270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Oct 21 19:05:23 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:05:13 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C41E@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
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On 10/21/2010 5:56 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>
> How does your application on the host decide which address to use when
> sourcing an outbound connection if you have two different subnets that
> are globally routable?
>
Many systems generally will go with the closest source address bitwise
to the destination address. Not perfect, but works. This assumes that
the source addresses are equal on other metrics.
Jack
