Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:15:53 +0100 From: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 autoconf fails on multihomed host Message-ID: <20040227001550.GB8949@rvdp.org> In-Reply-To: <20040225234352.GA70119@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20040225160126.GC20199@rvdp.org> <20040225234352.GA70119@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 23:43:52 +0000, David Malone wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:26PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> > if [ ${rtsol_available} = yes -a -n "${rtsol_interfaces}" ]; then
> > # Act as endhost - automatically configured.
> > # You can configure only single interface, as
> > # specification assumes that autoconfigured host has
> > # single interface only.
>
> It is odd - RFC 2462 actually seems to explicitly allow multihomed
> hosts, Section 5 says:
>
> For multihomed hosts, autoconfiguration is performed independently
> on each interface.
>
> however there might be an implementation detail that prevents this
> working properly.
Hmm, could be. I suppose each interface needs its own routing
(or reachability) table which holds the default router for that
interface? I think the BSD stack supports only one routing table.
rvdp
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