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Re: RFC 3484 Section 6 Rule 9

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 03 June 2008 13:32 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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To: Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: RFC 3484 Section 6 Rule 9
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ralph Droms wrote:

> Without some way to choose which rule to use and when to use it, how
> can a recommendation that has conditional rule usage be implemented?

The Kame/BSD IPv6 stack has a system-wide address selection policy.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6addrctl
If none is configured (which is the default) then the addresses from
the resolver are not re-ordered.

Tony.
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