(usagi-users 01168) Re: Is this a bug?

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@xxxxxxxx>]

With 2002 addressing, things work properly.

Jim Fleming
http://www.RepliGate.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zhang Qingjun" <zhangqj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <usagi-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: (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.)
> >
> >--
> >Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> >Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
> >Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
>
>
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