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(usagi-users 01207) Re: Is this a bug?



On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 wrote:
> > It is not clear enough which one should be preferred in the following
> > situation:
> >   against a global destination address,
> >   A: a link-local address on the outgoing interface (assuming that the
> >      interface does not have a larger-scope address)
> >   B: a global address on another interface
> > 
> > according to the address selection draft, we'll choose B.  And I think
> > it is a reasonable decision, or at least not a "very bad" choice.
> 
> How badly would you have to much up your routes to get into this 
> situation?  How many *real* (non-erroneous) usage scenarios are there?

This should apply to any p-t-p link; I see no reason to assign global 
addresses on p-t-p interfaces if the nodes on each side have global 
addresses assigned on other interfaces.  -Nathan

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