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(usagi-users 01165) Re: Is this a bug?

I am glad to learn that it's a bug which means that it should be fixed.
But anyone know whether this has/will be fixed?

Thanks

Qingjun

At 09:38 2002-1-17 +0200, you wrote: 
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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