(usagi-users 01163) Re: Is this a bug?

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Zhang Qingjun wrote:
> But whether such kind address selection may cause some routing problem for 
> the reply packets?

Yes, this is very bad IMO; this probably often leads to dropped packets 
due to ingress filtering; the draft says:

   It is RECOMMENDED that the candidate source addresses be the set of 
   unicast addresses assigned to the interface that will be used to 
   send to the destination. (The "outgoing" interface.)

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