Subject: Re: ipv6 source address selection
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/24/2007 11:45:40
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:58:46PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > How can I influence the source address used on a socket if the application
> > doesn't set one?
> > 
> > (I'm playing with a multicast ipv6-in-ipv6 tunnel; and the address used
> >  for that gets preferred to the 'real' address so that I can't connect
> >  to work any longer...)
> > 
> > OS is 3.0 currently; moving to 4.0 soon.
> 
> Would the "deprecated" keyword of ifconfig help you?

To a certain degree - it passes the quick test (don't know why it didn't
work the first time). Lets see whether it's enough for the real application.

	-is
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